We have come to the end of our thirty-one day journey.  When I decided to take on this challenge at the beginning of the month, I had no idea how difficult it was going to be.  I have grown in many ways and at times was stretched to the very limits of my abilities.God taught me many things this month.  I learned about priorities...

Well, it has happened again.  I knew it would only be a matter of time before I stumbled upon another obsession.  Something else that has the potential to become an idol in my life.This time the culprit is bread.  Yes, that is right.  Bread.A few weeks ago, I was at a home school event with my children.  We met a...

What an awesome day it has been.  After teaching a class this morning, my family and I drove out to Madison, VA to visit an adorable country market a friend told us about.  Right now it is cold and raining outside, but inside there is a meatloaf cooking, two loaves of bread rising and an apple pie waiting to go in the oven.  I love...

Miqweh Yisrael, Hope of Israel.  This name for God is the one that moves me the most.  To me it encompasses all the other character traits into one.  God is our hope.  Because of Him we can hope for a better future.  We can hope for healing.  We can hope that things will all work out for good, even when circumstances...

I have spent more than half of my life standing before judges.  Now, before you conjure up visions of me in a court room on the wrong side of the law, let me explain.  I am a former “beauty queen.”  Oh, how I hate that term.  I entered my first pageant at the age of twelve and my last at the age of thirty-one.  Standing...

On Sunday afternoon, while visiting North Anna Battlefield Park in nearby Hanover County, VA, Robbie Wood wandered away from his father, his younger autistic brother and his father’s girlfriend.  Robbie is a nine year old, non-verbal autistic boy.  Hundreds of volunteers and law enforcement officials have joined in the search for...

As I stood in my kitchen last Friday morning and surveyed my house, I wrestled with my emotions.  All week I had had a sense of peace and calm.  I wasn’t stressed by the state of my space or all of the things that needed to get cleaned up around the house.  I didn’t feel pressured by looming deadlines or my ever growing to-do...

As I watched them walk away arm in arm, I could not believe my eyes.  This guy who told me he loved me, that I was the only one in the world for him -- the same one who had brought me to this party, was now leaving with someone else.  And my heart was broken.  Again.One of the earliest lessons I learned in my life is that men don’t...