One fine April afternoon, my husband and I started dreaming about a romantic getaway while making an eight hour drive to Texas. I’d seen one of the airlines had their $99 ticket promotion going, so I read off the cities included. Charleston piqued our interest enough that I pulled out our calendar, found some datesContinueContinue reading “Journey of Joy: Week Four — Booking Rooms and Transportation”
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Journey of Joy: Week Three — Charting the Course
During my second excursion to the Holy Land, most of our group sat bunched together toward the front of the bus, but I chose to sit in the back with a few of my fellow travelers, the ones who wanted to compare notes, count steps, and study maps between stops. We had so much fun!ContinueContinue reading “Journey of Joy: Week Three — Charting the Course”
Introducing: The Joyful Life
Part of my journey in becoming a writer has been to research how other writers’ websites look, what they post on social media, and where they submit their writings for publication. In all my searching, I discovered The Joyful Life. Not only is their website beautiful, but their heart to come alongside Christian women toContinueContinue reading “Introducing: The Joyful Life”
Journey of Joy: Week Two — Where You Are Now
The first time I met a GPS, she spoke with great authority, clearly calling out directions as our group from Oklahoma navigated the highways of Atlanta. Despite being amazed at her ability to know where we were at any given moment, I had to work hard to overcome my skepticism every time she paused toContinueContinue reading “Journey of Joy: Week Two — Where You Are Now”
Journey of Joy: Week One — Desire
Is it possible to be homesick for somewhere you’ve never been? I mean, literally, that couldn’t happen. You can’t miss home if you’ve never been there, right? And yet, if we take the term “homesick” less literally just to mean that deeper longing for a place, then I think we can deeply desire to beContinueContinue reading “Journey of Joy: Week One — Desire”
Journey of Joy: The Proposal
Stuck. If there’s one word that captures how most of the world has felt for the last year, it’s stuck. First, the long months of complete lock-down in which we found ourselves isolated and separated like no generation ever. Weddings canceled. Funeral postponed. Graduations delayed. Churches closed. Schools moved home. Offices shut tight. Entertainment halted. ContinueContinue reading “Journey of Joy: The Proposal”
Playing Psalms: Games and Goodness — What It All Means
I saw a meme this week of a harried-looking guy hollering, “I’m getting pretty tired of living through historical events!” I needed some humor at the time I saw it because I was feeling it — that depth of, when is this gonna end? Lord, when will You answer our prayers and bring healing toContinueContinue reading “Playing Psalms: Games and Goodness — What It All Means”
Playing Psalms: Games and Goodness — Follow the Leader
While I may not have been a big fan of games like “Red Rover” in my growing up years, there was one game I loved: “Follow the Leader.” Being at the head of a line of friends who trailed behind me required no physical strength, no particular stratagem, nor any specific skill — except maybeContinueContinue reading “Playing Psalms: Games and Goodness — Follow the Leader”
Playing Psalms: Games and Goodness — Flashlight Tag
I stepped out onto the dark, back porch to silence. Expecting a huge group of loud, pre-teen boys, I found the opposite. So, I listened for any sign that my boys and their friends were still somewhere in our yard. The moonlight was perfect for playing their favorite game — Flashlight Tag. My eyes straining,ContinueContinue reading “Playing Psalms: Games and Goodness — Flashlight Tag”
Playing Psalms: Goodness and Games — Tag
Simultaneously, my friends and I shouted, as if loudness affected the quickness of our words, “Not it!”“Not it!”“Not it!” Well, quickness counted. Because whoever was last to get the words out became the infamous IT, the one who had the hard task of tagging the rest of us who scrambled about the yard, arms flailing,ContinueContinue reading “Playing Psalms: Goodness and Games — Tag”