October 2011
26 posts
{Weekend Challenge} The Power of Touch →
While I’m sure you’ll be hearing more about the dotMOM conference interspersed in posts around here for quite some time, this is the last of my recaps. And I’m ending with an author I truly…
September 2011
21 posts
Joyful Journey →
Looking for a Bible study to do on your own or with a group? Here’s my latest …
She fears God and nothing else! →
Great post by @KathyHHoward on Scripture Dig today! This P31 series has been amazing.
Easily Distracted →
{First, my apologies … yesterday I had intended to share another Swede Home Alabama post about our experiences as a host family. Obviously, that did not happen. Life happened instead! }
I…
Let Down the Nets →
The final session of .MOM was Priscilla Shirer … and she was fantabulous! Using Luke 5:1-11 as her text, Priscilla shared how Peter had left his boat after a disappointing and…
Beautifully Devastating →
Angie Smith is amazing. When she spoke last year at a conference I attended, I was moved beyond words. Giving expression to the depths of despair and the heights of hope, she reminds us to trust…
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{Weekend Challenge} Learn! →
I’m headed to the .MOM conference this weekend in Birmingham … and I am quite excited! Some of my favorite speakers will be there … Angie Smith and Vicki Courtney. There are so many breakouts
{Top Ten} Books to Encourage a Weary Heart →
It’s no secret around here that I love my Kindle … I mean, I really love my Kindle. So much so that I have convinced several others to get Kindles just because I rave about mine so much.
But …
{Weekend Challenge} Choose Joy! →
Each week my beautiful friend Lisa-Jo, hosts Five Minute Friday on her blog … a challenge for us as writers to forget perfection and just write. I have to admit, I love this idea in theory but…
{SwedeHomeAlabama} The Adventure Begins →
Let’s see, last Wednesday I left you with this picture as we waited in the airport:
And the “Blogger of the Year” award will certainly be mine as a result of the amazing pictures I got…
Laying Ourselves Down {The Discipline of... →
Beginning a look at how submission affects our parenting … some tough questions.
{Top Ten} Lessons from Wearing Heelys →
“Shoes with skates? Seriously? That’s a concussion waiting to happen!”
Probably my exact words the first time my daughter mentioned Heelys. {And the second, third, fortieth times as well.} But,…
We Will Remember →
Ten years ago today I was with my entire family – parents, brothers, sister-in-law, nieces and nephews – at “The Happiest Place on Earth.”
We were on our second day at Magic Kingdom and…
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“We will remember, we will remember, we will remember the works of Your hands...”
– We Will Remember
{Weekend Challenge} Remember and Give Thanks →
With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 upon us, this seems a good time to remind ourselves of the sovereignty of God … and in that, His faithfulness and mercy and provision.
This weekend, I challenge…
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“The sorrows of life have themselves been the source of life’s enlargement...”
– Streams in the Desert {Sept. 8}
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“On some days, your circumstances and your physical condition feel out of...”
– Sarah Young, Jesus Calling {Sept. 8}
… I feel like I’ve been caught here often lately. More to do than the energy available. I needed this reminder to rely on Him …
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Some Scripture that Touched My Heart this Morning
“For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.” Jeremiah 31:25
“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23
“You have taken up my cause, O Lord; You have redeemed my life.” Lamentations 3:58
A Place to Put Your Feet Up →
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
The “undress…
{Weekend Challenge} Go for it! →
Apparently I’ve been “vaguebooking” on Facebook and Twitter … okay, not apparently, I knew I was doing it! I have some great news to share!!
I’m thrilled to be partnering with an…