Just for Women

It really is in the whisper. If I could sum up my experience last week at Scarritt-Bennett in Nashville, it would be that God is with us. Of course that is what Immanuel means (Matthew 1:23), right? God is with us.

We can do everything for God or we can do...

 

After 25 years, yesterday was the airing of the last episode of the Oprah Winfrey television show. Everything has a beginning and an end, even Oprah.

This Friday night my baby boys, aka the twins, are graduating from high school. For the first time in 25 years I...

 

It was time. My little-league-toting, gas-guzzling SUV was making a noise that let us know its days were numbered. After de-mucking and grieving, we traded it in for a sedan. I am still getting used to feeling as if I am sitting on the ground and miss all the...

 

You can go to the grocery store and find everything from cereal to steak that has an official stamp of approval by some vendor or government agency. And it is these endorsements that give us confidence that these foods have been tested and we can purchase them...

 

Most people enjoy getting into the Christmas spirit by decorating, shopping and participating in Christmas programs and celebrations. However, writing the annual Christmas newsletter is often considered to be a last-minute chore for the procrastinating...

 

Every year I make New Year's resolutions and every year I break them, so this year I'm trying something different. Instead of hoping I'll change my habits for twelve months I'm going for one month: January. For just this month I'm doing my best to focus more on...

 

To deeply understand fear we must also look at ourselves and the way we interpret our situations. Those scary objects can reveal what we cherish. They point out our insatiable quest for control, our sense of "aloneness."

(Edward T. Welch in "Running Scared.")...

 

It's nice to get a little something extra, isn't it? During my mother's "letter-writing" days, she always tucked a little something extra into the envelope for me with her letter. Sometimes it would be a tea bag, a perfume sample, a small calendar, a picture, or...

 

So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him
(Luke 15:20 TNIV)
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I am continuing to read The Return...

 

Every day, thousands of young girls pretend that Barbie dolls and Disney princesses meet the man of their dreams, marry, and of course, live happily ever after. If only we were made of plastic, perhaps our realities would mesh with the fantasies we had so many...