• Birthdays, Cupcakes, and Gratefulness

    What I’ve learned this birthday weekend…. First, Pinterest is always telling me how much I’ve failed. If I’m comparing myself to Pinterest, I’ll always fall short. I made a Monopoly cake based on a Pinterest idea I found, but I kept comparing mine to the original. No one saw the original. It wasn’t about that anyway. My son’s response: “I don’t like it mom, I LOVE it!” Success. Not a failure. And he did see the original. Second, I felt…

  • New Life, More Confidence

    Welcome to the day of new beginnings…Easter. / / Today, death was conquered. / / March is the month of new beginnings. It is the first month winter’s cold fades. It is the first month I was able to hold our sweet Liana. It is the month my grandmother was born. I’ve been thinking a lot about her these past few weeks. My spunky, kind, and matter-of-fact grandmother. She’s been gone for a little over five years. I’ll always remember how long because…

  • From the Father & Tuesday Talk

    And the Word become flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. – John 1:14 From the Father. Our Heavenly Father sent His Son in the world. Jesus. It was through Jesus, according to scripture, we could see the Father. As Jesus lived His life, in the flesh, He revealed who the Father was. God was so clearly seen as The Father when…

  • Dwelt Among Us & Tuesday Talk

    And the Word become flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. – John 1:14 Dwelt Among Us.  When I think about Christ dwelling with us, I often think of the time He was here on earth. Around Christmastime, that’s what we tend to think about. We marvel and worship our King who came as a baby. Sometimes I wish I was alive during…