I am developing a new habit. Every time I hear my children’s delight through laughter or squeals…I grab my camera. I want to remember why they laugh and squeal. I want to know what that looks like…so that I may live it with such abandon. How do we let life go by so fast? Life [...]
In my home, this is the face of possibility. Every parent of a special needs child faces the same decision: You either look for limitations, or you look for possibility. When it is time for our kids to go to school, we hope/wish/pray that the teacher and the classroom will open up possibilities that we [...]
Perspective is an amazing thing. A lump in your throat, a lump in your oatmeal, and a lump in your breast are not the same thing. Perspective. How I see things; how I process things; how I value things…THAT is my perspective. I am trying, searching, yearning, to align my perspective with that of my [...]
Standing outside my mother in law’s room at the convalescent center I overheard the nurse impatiently say to her, “How many times do I have to tell you not to get out of your chair?” I took a deep breath and reminded myself, “We are getting her out of here soon. Hold your tongue.” Not [...]
Excellence. In a world where I am surrounded by piles of laundry and sinks full of dishes, is there excellence to be found? Is there excellence I can achieve? My mind circles around the concept..the idea of how do I make excellence a reality in my life, my family, my marriage and my ministry. I [...]
“Good to great comes about by a cumulative process–step by step, action by action, decision by decision, turn by turn of the flywheel–that adds up to sustained and spectacular results.” Good to Great pg. 165 Dear Friends…it has been a long, dry, “sifting season” for this dear little ministry. However, it is in that season [...]
I have a mixed marriage. I am a Pepsi person and my husband prefers Coke. When our kids were learning to crawl, we would put one of each cola 10 yards away and cheer as they crawled to one or the other; as if that would determine any kind of superiority. I now have the [...]
Brighten A Corner Ministry spent its 8th birthday doing what it does best—serving. At the beginning of November in 2002 I invited a small group of women to my home for breakfast and unveiled for them the idea of Brighten A Corner Ministry. It was originally envisioned as a group of women who would complete [...]
We are about to begin! It has been a while, but tomorrow we start again. Ready to help another family escape the stresses of overwhelmed-ness; ready to put people back to work focusing on something other than their own daily burdens; ready to show those in the body of Christ that together we can do [...]
I am convinced that Christ has indeed risen; individually and together we are the ambassadors for a Lord who manifests His love through us in ordinary and extraordinary circumstances. Even though I never doubted my salvation and faithfully did the “Sunday” thing, I had always been aware of a distinct void in my life, some [...]
