Ready, Set, Goals!

Lose weight!  Stop smoking!  Join a health club!  But most of our best intentions are forgotten within days.  Then it’s back to that let-down feeling of having failed again. There is a big difference between making resolutions and prayerfully arriving at God-inspired...

Quick Meal In One with Bread!

My husband had a loaf of frozen bread dough on the counter one afternoon thawing and he loves to make carmel rolls with them.  However we have had 3 batches of carmel rolls the past week and so I decided to try something fun with items I had in the fridge to make...

Countdown to a Successful Garage Sale

I LOVE garage sales. I once lived in a neighborhood that hosted an annual garage sale each spring. It ended up being a social time for all us as we opened our garages and set up our sales. One of my neighbors and I discovered that it was easier on both of us if we...

Laser Moments — Are You Joy Filled?

Laser moments is a representation of the joy experienced in the daily ordinary experiences that becomes sacred when we realize that everyday is literally a gift from God. Here are some examples:  Watching my sons play their recital pieces after months of hard work;...

The Old Red Etch-A-Sketch

My youngest daughter, Jenessa, is an artist.  Ever since she was a little girl, she would sit down in the middle of the floor, her crayons, scissors, glitter, and glue sprawled out beside her, and would begin the adventurous task of creating some new work of...