by Nancy Holte | Jan 20, 2014 | Faith
John 14:27 (NLT) “I am leaving you with a gift – peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.” Don’t be troubled or afraid. Don’t be worried. All sound advice, really, but what does that look like? I’ve...
by Kristin Demery | Jan 13, 2014 | Faith
I’ve been married to my husband for more than six years now, have been a homeowner for nearly seven years, and have two children. Yet there’s still a part of me that thinks that someday, sometime, someone will come to my door and say, “Good job, but it’s time to go...
by Tabby Finton | Jan 6, 2014 | Faith
It’s the end of an era: the last time it will be this way. And I had to spend some time capturing my final thoughts and remembering. The time had come to pack up Christmas for the last time with our family unit as it has always been – mom, dad, and three sons. Next...
by Janet DeCaster | Dec 23, 2013 | Faith
Waiting. Like me, most Americans don’t do it very well. We can be a bit impatient, can’t we? With our busy-busy lives and surrounded by an always-in–a-hurry society, we just don’t like to wait. The American landscape is filled with monuments to our culturally...
by Nancy Holte | Dec 23, 2013 | Faith
Last month in my blog 1000 Gifts and More I mentioned that our family has been walking through some “hard eucharisteo,” a time when giving thanks seems a little bit more challenging. On October 23 we heard the news that my husband, John, has all the indicators...
by Tabby Finton | Dec 12, 2013 | Faith
We had a power outage last week that lasted just under an hour. It was evening, and in a split second, lights, video games, music, and all other noise came to a screeching halt. I knew my eleven-year-old would be startled, at the least. So I grabbed my phone and slid...
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