Do The Next Thing

Do The Next Thing

When I was a young mother isolated and overwhelmed on a farm in the western plains of Kansas, I remember being blessed by the voice of Elisabeth Elliot and her admonition to “do the next thing”. It sounds so simple, and certainly she isn’t the only...
5 Tips to Help Get Your Family Out the Door to Church

5 Tips to Help Get Your Family Out the Door to Church

Have you been thinking about going back to church? Maybe you are going to try regularly attending a local worship service for the first time since you became a parent. Maybe you didn’t grow up in a family who did church. Or perhaps you did and now you are trying to...

“Once I was seven years old”

A few weeks ago my daughter Natalie told me she had a blog post idea.  Once she told me what it was, I asked her to write it for me as I felt it would have more impact in her voice.  So here it is.  Thanks Natalie. At the age of seven, my childhood best friend, Brady...

My Neighborhood Chore Stalker

My neighbor was stalking me.  I was walking back from our communal mailbox and I thought she was just positioning her Suburban to pick up her mail, but instead she was slowly following right behind me and I was oblivious, flipping thru the stack of mail in my hands...