Changing One Heart for Many – Week 23
Just joining us? Go here to catch up and join the movement!How incredible that we are nearing our half-way mark for this year of praying together! I'm so encouraged by everyone's commitment to keep at it, and I want to share with you something that I hope will encourage you, as well.Last week, I read a post on my friend Cheryl's blog. Cheryl is a fellow prayer team member and I'm taking the following text directly from her post:I'm typing this from hotel room in Lousiville, Kentucky. We are here for the Southern Baptist Convention. This morning we went to a church that we knew nothing about. When we arrived at the church this morning, we found out that Dr. Frank Page was their guest...
FIGHT LIKE A GIRL: A Giveaway Winner!
Well, you might have thought that I'd forgotten about this giveaway, as I was going to let it run through the 4th of July like the Surrendering the Secret blog. However, there's a possibility that I might be traveling that week and wanted to get this done before I really DID forget about it!So, the winner of the Surrendering the Secret: Healing the Heartbreak of Abortion Bible Study/DVD kit is...A Simple Country Girl!!Congratulations! Join me in praying for those in her area whose lives will be touched with a new freedom through this study. Thanks for entering, and don't forget to check in on the STS blog on the 4th, or on the Facebook group to see if you've won there - there's another...
How to Live a Happy Life: Lessons Learned at Cracker Barrel
I happened to find myself eating breakfast alone at a Cracker Barrel Saturday morning. I'd made arrangements for Hubs to play golf at a coveted golf course for a Father's Day treat, and they didn't have room over this busy weekend for me to ride along. So, I dropped him off early and, because no stores were open yet and there was nothing else to do, I decided that I'd have a little breakfast at this roadside favorite.When I walked in, it was exactly like every other Cracker Barrel restaurant in the U.S. I walked through the retail "general store" to the hostess stand and asked to be seated. I've been noticing lately that many restaurants and shopping malls/centers are noticeably less...
Changing One Heart for Many – Week 22
Just joining us? Go here to catch up and join the movement!Fathers. There are new fathers, experienced fathers, grandfathers, stepfathers, and fathers who have gone on to heaven. We set aside this day every year to honor them, thank them for what they've done and been in our lives, and bless them for the sacrifices they've made. But, their is a broader spectrum of fatherhood.Among those that weren't mentioned are the almost-fathers; the fathers who live with the decision they made to end their child's life through abortion, who paid for the procedure because they didn't know what else to do, or were even completely against aborting their child but were given no say in the matter. We've...
Some Friday Comic Relief
So, Hubs comes in last night from taking the dog downstairs for his evening constitutional. His face is flushed to the point that I'm thinking they went for a run, but since my hound is of the "weiner-dog" variety, I know this is highly unlikely."Honey, why is your face so red?" "Because I've just had a 'most embarrassing moment'!""What in the world happened?!""Well, I let Riley do his business and I hit a couple of golf balls while I was waiting for him. Then, we came back up the stairs.""Um...what's so embarrassing about that?""I got distracted by the dog and lost track of how many flights of stairs we had climbed. I stopped on the second floor instead of the third and walked RIGHT ON IN...