This past week I’ve found myself pouring over the book of Jeremiah. I know it’s an odd book from the Bible to “pour over”. I’ll explain. Have you ever written out this verse in a graduation card or given it to a friend going through a hard time: “‘For I know the plans I have for you’, declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to ...
Monthly Archives:: January 14, 2013
The one-sided lunch date {an update on the boys & the book}
Wouldn’t it be fun if we planned to meet for a 3-hour lunch date? We could sip iced tea, eat some warm baked potato soup and share what God’s been doing in our lives. Okay…maybe we will have to settle for a one-sided date. A monologue of sorts…me blabbing on and on about myself (and my boys). Maybe you can email me or comment below your latest ...
The Time Her Deafness Taught Me to Listen
There are so many stories to share with you from what’s been going on in the Mac home ; funny stories, injurious ones, happy-news ones… But first I want to share this particularly story from my past (my pre-kids, pre-Dallas days). Susan stood out among my graduate school speech-language pathology clients. Each semester we were assigned 3-4 clients. By graduation we were required to have seen ...
The habit I couldn’t establish with willpower alone
Two years ago I signed up for my first Hello Mornings challenge. I started off slowly, waking up only 5 minutes earlier than my boys. Then a few weeks later I moved my wake-up time a little earlier…15 minutes before the boys woke up. I only lost a few minutes of sleep, but I gained a whole new direction to my ...
How a Change in Tense Changes Choices
Y’all there are so many thoughts spinning in my head and I’m having the hardest time getting them to come out “perfectly”. So I’m throwing off perfection and gonna do the next right thing…which is tell you what God is telling me. Last New Years when bloggers wrote about their “one word” for 2012 I scoffed and sarcastically ...
My {in process} Story
Hi Heather!
Oh, I Love This Story! And, Yes! It is exactly what I needed reminded of today. Thanks for sharing your lesson that I would be ‘brighter’!
May you, your precious family & your ministry(s) be Blessed 70 x 7!
{BIG’ole’HUG} Love Ya, Susie
Mmmm. Good food for the soul and so well written. Thank you for the beautiful reminder that while the Promise may appear to tarry, it WILL come. – Blessings!
Ahh, just loved this post! You are so right, our minds, our current life situations, they all have the potential to hold us hostage from the Truth. But He is faithful and just! Great reminder! (and PS, we also have Pandora dance parties as well
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