Beauty, Talent & Love

Beauty, Talent & Love

How is a girl expected to cram 50 years of influence and relationship into merely a few paragraphs?  With a lot of prayer and painful editing.

 I’ve narrowed it down to three character traits of our mom that seem to bubble up as a recurring theme in the notes from her beloved friends and relatives who have reached out to us since her passing. 

Beauty, Talent and Love.

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Ministering for Millennials . . . and for the Rest of Us Too

Ministering for Millennials . . . and for the Rest of Us Too

Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been participating in a newly released New Testament Bible study program called “Come Follow Me.” 

To be honest, though I have loved Bible stories since childhood, as an adult I have skipped around in the Bible, (with a lot more skipping in the Old Testament if you must know) and have never made a serious effort to study its messages. 

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Bangs and Prom: How to Connect With Your Daughter

Bangs and Prom:  How to Connect With Your Daughter

“Mom?  Do you think I should cut bangs into my hair?”

“Yes, honey.  I think they’d look cute.”

“But do you think I’ll regret it?”

“For sure. But it will be fun for a little while and then you can rue the day that you did for the next five years.”

“I’m going to ask Dad.”

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Windows Into Their Worlds

Windows Into Their Worlds

Last July I casually began a little accountability group of women to help us begin or finish the books we wanted to write.   

The casual experience rapidly grew into something much more motivating and powerful than any of us had imagined.  It spawned a group name, websites, speaking events, workshops, a new book written collectively, and finally a small publishing company.  That was in a matter of six months.

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