I’m a pro at growing meant. Not mint, but meant. I meant to make the bed after I woke up. I meant to call my friend to check on how her appointment went. I meant to tell the pastor how much his sermon challenged me. I meant to spend undistracted time with my husband, so […]
You may not know it to look at me, but this frumpy-dumpy middle-aged woman has a background in powerlifting. I started working out in the football team’s weight room during study hall my senior year of high school. This alone is laughable, considering I wasn’t in athletics, and truthfully didn’t even get the “easy A” […]
Today we’re starting a new series on the word strength. When I think of that word, my mind flashes to the back of comic books, where they illustrate a wimpy guy on a beach being beaten up by a bully, and then a new screen where the wimpy guy becomes a weightlifter and then goes […]
Kathy Carlton Willis has experienced more in a few years than many people experience in a lifetime, and in this Spiritual Life UPGRADE, she tells us how she’s experienced some personal breakthroughs this year. And we can too! Kathy admits, “For the last few years I’ve been circling a holding pattern waiting for a landing […]
I just returned from a Christian writers conference and am still enjoying the afterglow of it. One reason is because I saw Father everywhere. His children took after Him and drew me to His beauty in them. I had so many God-wow moments. In them I saw our Creator, our Redeemer, our Mastermind. Their beauty […]
Our Boston terrier, Jazzy, has started doing something that makes my heart do happy flip flops! Our house is arranged in such a way (like a figure eight) that she often loses me. It doesn’t help that she’s 12 and can’t see or hear all that well. Mom and Russ say she begins to panic […]
I have a confession to make. I’m a gym rat. I don’t look like one, but I am. In fact, I’m going later today. Like many, I do some form of cardio exercise for the heart. The word “cardio” is a good giveaway that it benefits the heart, doesn’t it? I also enjoy lifting weights […]
I have no doubt Kathy Carlton Willis is qualified to teach us on the subject of disappointment in this Biblical Thinking UPGRADE. I was on her prayer team last year when she experienced what she calls, “back-to-back-to-back disappointments.” “I started the year in the hospital for a post-surgical infection,” Kathy says. “It required additional surgery, going […]
After Hurricane Harvey, we began the clean-up effort. It’s still going on today, over five months later. The first week the stores opened after the roads were clear, we all clamored to get the basics. No, not milk and eggs. The electricity was still off. Basics like bleach and disinfectants. Thankfully, I only had to […]
Little kids have all sorts of sayings. Step on a crack, break my mother’s back. Pinky swear. Jinx—you owe me a coke! Slug bug! One of the phrases I remember hearing often when someone promised they were telling me the truth was, “Cross my heart and hope to die.” I never wanted to say that […]
