What Can You Do For God?

Do you feel stuck and like you can’t do anything for God? I want to encourage you with something I recently shared with my Bible study girls a few weeks ago. Working on the Sidelines In January of this year I had the amazing privileged to join a medical team traveling to Honduras to help the physical and ultimately the spiritual needs of a small community. My husband is a doctor, but I am a teacher and currently just stay at…

Why Our Ordinary Days Matter

A friend of my shared recently how a scene in a popular movie (I won’t name which one) bothered her. It is a fun, beautiful, and encroaching movie, but one scene had me pausing as well. In this scene, one character invited  another character to leave his “ordinary” life for a life way more exciting. As a mother, some days I wish someone would take me away too. My youngest sister is unmarried and works for an airline company. In…

Why We Are Moving to Honduras

Coffee smells like home to me. It tastes like warmth sliding down into my very soul. I love it with all the cream and sugar until it is a caramel color. The best is on cold mornings in the fall. The mornings I actually get up early and have time to sit and savor a cup before the kids wake up is the best kind of way to start a day. God is asking me to savor something else these…