I am thrilled to be a new reviewer for Interviews & Reviews! This opportunity opens up more books for my reading pleasure as long as I review them (which of course I love to do!) That being said, the first book I reviewed is On a Summer Tide by Suzanne…
How Do You Praise God When You Feel Like You’re Drowning?
For today’s post, I decided to share a post from an old blog of mine. This post was written in 2013, but it kind of reflects how I’m feeling at this moment. Following God’s path isn’t always the easiest thing to do. In fact, it can be pretty difficult. We…
Tales From an Active Imagination: Part 4
Chapter 4 of The Rose Garden is now up! If you are new to the story, you can start at the beginning. If you just need a refresher from last time, you can re-read chapter 3. “You must hate me,” I somehow manage to squeak out. I can’t bring myself…
Fruit of the Spirit: Choosing Self-Control
The first time I read Paul’s letter to Titus, I was struck with the message he wrote about older and younger women in chapter 2. He told Titus, “teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but…
Practice
It’s another 5 Minute Friday! 5 minutes to reflect on and write my thoughts on a word prompt. Today is PRACTICE. And, yes, I often go over the time limit. GO When I was a kid, I loved baseball. I loved going to the AAA ball field in the city…
Book Review: The Lighthouse Baby
It’s time for another book review! This book is the second of three books inLaura Thomas’ Christian romantic suspense series, Flight to Freedom. From the very first word of Laura Thomas’ new novel, The Lighthouse Baby, I was on edge. My heart was pumping fast, and I was immediately drawn…
Fruit of the Spirit: Choosing Gentleness
What can you learn from a 14-year-old boy whose 9th grade English teacher assigns a two-minute speech about social issues? When my son received an assignment where he had to choose a social issue and present it to the class along with a resolution, he knew exactly what he wanted…
The Missed Putt
“Nice shot.” That was the last phrase my dad would ever speak. He and my brother-in-law had taken advantage of a warm, sunny, Sunday afternoon after church to play a round of golf at dad’s favorite 9-hole golf course in the town where he resided. They walked up to the…
Fruit of the Spirit: Choosing Faithfulness
It’s week #7 of the Fruit of the Spirit series. Last week, as I was thinking about the story of Stephen in Acts chapters 6-7, the thought, “Stephen is a great example of faithfulness,” came to my mind. How perfect that “faithfulness” was the topic of my next blog post.…
Touch
It’s time for another 5 Minute Friday post! One of my favorite songs is called, The Touch of the Master’s Hand. It’s an older folk song, but I heard it redone when I was a teen. It’s a song about God, and how he is the one who makes us…