by Melinda | Dec 29, 2013 | Christmas, Eyes Wide Open, Free Indeed, God in the Everyday, He's Bigger than Me, Living the God Life, Lover of My Soul, Thankfulness, Uncategorized
I love blank paper. Every time I’m at Target I go down the office supply aisle and peruse the spiral notebooks and journals, sometimes buying, but always looking. I think it started when I was a little girl and I got a brand new Big Chief tablet at the...
by Melinda | Dec 28, 2013 | All Together Now, Living Low, Living the God Life, Thankfulness, Work
…be thankful for it. I know. It’s a weird way to start off a post, especially when I haven’t written a thing for a week. Really, I should be asking you how your Christmas was, and telling you how much I missed you. We should really be talking...
by Melinda | Dec 17, 2013 | Christmas, Dream Scape, Eyes Wide Open, He's Bigger than Me, In the Eye of the Beholder, Living the God Life, Lover of My Soul, Working Out Faith
I got a call last night from Emmie. I knew the kids had gone to see Santa, but she’d forgotten to tell me about what Lilli told him. All week she’d been asking her what she was going to ask Santa to bring her for Christmas. “Mommy, I’m...
by Melinda | Dec 16, 2013 | About Me, Free Indeed, He's Bigger than Me, Living the God Life, Random Musings, Working Out Faith
I’m a planner, by nature. If I know I have a lot coming up, I try to break it down and put it all out on paper, or my iPad, so I have running lists, and can try to keep up with everything. The problem, though, has been this very interesting middle part of...
by Melinda | Dec 13, 2013 | All Together Now, He's Bigger than Me, Home on the Range, Living Low, Living the God Life, Reaching Out, Working Out Faith
I had an interesting conversation yesterday with a friend of mine. She has kind of a tough exterior, having come through some pretty hard knocks in her life, and it makes her uncomfortable when people see glimpses of her soft side. And trust me when I say...
by Melinda | Dec 9, 2013 | All Together Now, Christmas, Living the God Life, Reaching Out, Thankfulness, Uncategorized
After quiet descended on my house yesterday, and I straightened up and put away baby equipment and toys, I collapsed into a chair next to the fire and did pretty much nothing. I watched some favorite movies with Maddie and Kevin, then grazed through leftovers...
