God’s Will?

In the winter of 1975, I lived in the small town of Huxley, Iowa.  That winter we got a generous amount of snow.  My older brother Jerry, with the help of my sister Janni, built a snow fort in the back yard where he tunneled through the snow drifts, with...

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...

One of THOSE Days

Ever have one of those mornings? You know what I’m talking about – a morning where nothing goes as planned and life is chaos. One of those mornings. I woke up feeling a little unexcited about work, a little overwhelmed by some recent major life changes, worried about...

Eating Green

 Too Much Fruit  We’ve been told for over a decade that five servings of fruits and vegetables a day are part of a healthy and well-balanced diet; but is this actually accurate?  Most fruit is high in fructose, a natural sugar. While fructose is not as...