five minute friday :: adore
You guys! This is the final Five Minute Friday link-up of 2014! The grand finale! Can you believe it? We'll be taking a two week break during the weeks of Christmas and New Year's, but we'll be back and ready to write the week of January 8th. I just want to take...
the year that was :: highlights and top posts from 2014
So we've come to the end of another year, by God's grace. As I reflect on the past twelve months, I'm so grateful to each of you for the encouragement you've provided by reading and commenting on this blog. My prayer continues to be that the Lord would use this...
if you wrote a letter to grief, what would you say? {special edition link-up}
If you wrote a letter to grief, what would you say? Would you tell grief that you hate it, that you wish it didn't exist, that you want it to go away? Would you tell grief that you need it, that you're grateful for it, that you're glad for its reminders and...
five minute friday :: prepare
Hi everyone! Welcome to this week's edition to Five Minute Friday! If you're new here, you may want to click over to this page to get the scoop on what Five Minute Friday is all about ... we'd love to have you join us! And if you haven't heard, there's a fabulous...
my top 14 books of 2014
In my opinion, Deidra Riggs was right when she declared 2014 to be "The Year of the Book." SO many amazing books were published this past year! Here are 14 of my favorites from 2014, in no particular order: Surprised by Motherhood: Everything I Never...
five minute friday :: dear (and an e-book for you!)
My dear Five Minute Friday crew, I wrote something for you. It’s a collection of Letters to Grief. You can snag a copy right over here, and if you click over before the end of Friday, December 5th, it can be yours for FREE! I wrote it because some...
it’s here! announcing the release of letters to grief
It's here! I'm thrilled to share with you that my first e-book, Letters to Grief, is now available on Amazon. I wrote it for you. For those of you who have known grief as a close companion, and those of you who have yet to experience loss intimately. I wrote it...
five minute friday :: give
Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all of the Americans! Hope you've had a blessed time reflecting on God's goodness. There are some exciting things happening within the Five Minute Friday community! First of all, our very own Asheritah over at OneThingAlone.com...
surprise at yorktown :: a review
Surprise at Yorktown is the 15th book in the Adventures in Odyssey Imagination Station series -- a series in which cousins Patrick and Beth use the Imagination Station to travel back in time to take part in key historical events. In this book, they find themselves...
fighting fear
I grabbed the phone, corralled my kids into a bedroom, locked the door and told them to crawl under the bed as I called the police. We had just walked into our house in Cape Town one morning to find a broken window, a large rock wedged against our back door — and a...








