Today the hope I’m sharing is for our clutter. My closets can sometimes look hopeless. Can you relate? Our closets easily become a collection place if we allow it to. I think that is the first problem. It’s much quicker to place items in our closets rather than dealing with what to do with them. What I have found helpful is to have a box designated in our basement for give-away items or for a yard sale. As I clean house, rather than put that vase I no longer like or use in the closet, I put Continue Reading
What I Learned this Fall season
Today’s blog post is linked up with, Emily P Freeman. She hosts a quarterly series, 'Sharing What We Learned', as a way to reflect on the past, sharing lessons learned or new experiences. Check out some other's, over on Emily's link up (bottom of her post). Six of the things I learned this Fall season: Saying NO is OK. “No, is a complete sentence,” says Anne Lamott. Volunteering is in my blood. My spiritual gift is serving. But lately, I’m learning that in order to be better at my Continue Reading
Book Review: Lazarus Awakening-Joanna Weaver
What can the story of Lazarus in the Bible teach us? Basically, all we know is he was sick, died and came back to life. I wondered what I could possibly learn from Lazarus. Joanna helps us in her book, Lazarus Awakening, using the life of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, to get the truth of God’s love from our head to our heart. Each chapter is based on a segment of Lazarus’s story. For example, Chapter 6, Roll Away the Stone, is about some of the boulders in our life. And Chapter 7, When Loves Continue Reading