When Being Angry Makes Sense

by | Jul 24, 2014 | Faith

In many ways it made perfect sense to be angry with God. At least that’s what a lot of people seemed to think. “It’s okay to be angry with God,” they’d say. “He can take it.” My husband, John, had just been diagnosed with a treatable, yet curable cancer after all....

Flourishing In God’s Power

by | Jul 14, 2014 | Faith, Leadership

Olivia Puccini  is a wife, mom, author, and Missionary. There was a faint knock on the screen door. My mother rolled over in bed and felt herself sink into the depression that had laid her there. Her husband had left her for another woman. At the door waited her...

A Spot in the Sun

by | Jul 14, 2014 | Faith

I love my front window. It faces the afternoon sun. And although in the summertime it can be unbearably hot, requiring the blinds to be closed most afternoons, during the fall and winter it is a beautiful spot to soak up the sun. On a chilly fall day or blustery cold...

I’m a Control Freak.

by | Jul 3, 2014 | Faith

When the car lost control on loose gravel, fishtailing wildly only to end with an ominous smoking crash in the ditch, I knew immediately on impact that something was wrong. Hanging suspended from the lap seatbelt in the backseat behind the driver, I felt panicked by...

The Peony Principles

by | Jun 23, 2014 | Faith

I love flowers. Each spring I wait expectantly for my perennials to bloom and for my annuals to grow. All summer long, I watch and gather hope and courage from their beauty and hardy existence. When pounding rains come, I find myself hoping that my little flowery...

My Big Floral Couch

by | Jun 16, 2014 | Faith

I am a thrift store junkie. There’s something about walking the aisles of a store, not knowing what you’ll find buried within its shelves, that just speaks to the inner treasure hunter in me. Recently, I bought my most favorite treasure of all. I wasn’t looking for...