…that did it for me. If you were to open up my high school year book, in my senior blurb under “likes” is listed small details that make a big difference. Not much has changed since then. I still find myself reveling in the seemingly smallest of small blessings that to me are the biggest [...]
I could bathe in self pity.
Ever ended your day wanting to do just that? Enter the Gospel of Mark, chapter 3. Meet my friend Jesus. Watch my ‘woe is me’ attitude dissipate–at least until the next time I set out to march into the “depths of despair.”
It all starts out nice and all, the man [...]
II Corinthians 9:7
“Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”
This morning I got to be an eye witness. I saw the offering plate passed over a young child while he was digging in his pockets. As [...]
I try to plan a lot of “looking forward to” events for these winter days — “anything to get through March” is kind of my mantra. I was excited when I woke up today to find the sky blue and the sun bright.
Here’s what we did for the most part:
Bagels
Saved a couple lives (ok, ok, [...]
Last week I spoke at the Huntington Christian Women’s Club. How this happened, I don’t even know. But it was out there and it always encourages me to meet Christians from places other than my church, or work — an encouragement to me that God’s hand is moving all over Huntington (and beyond).
So I thought [...]
I love the blogosphere. There’s a lot of good, free information and wisdom. In the past year I’ve been gleaning a lot from these blogs…One day I was daydreaming that all these blog authors descended upon my home and helped me get my life together — you know the, parts that I think [...]
Today is my brother Brad’s birthday! Happy Birthday big bro! We miss you very much.
When I think of Brad’s birthday, I always think of Elvis’ birthday because it’s the day before Brad’s, and the media always seems to focus on him around this time of year. One morning this past week I watched an [...]
Check out this picture of one of my sister in law — whenever I see it I feel inspired to do something awesome.
Did anyone else notice the facebook news feed today? January has others feeling inspired too. Everyone was squawking about their new year’s resolutions, everything from reading through the Bible in a year to [...]
I regret I didn’t live up to my word. I promised a blog post by 2010 and here I am, almost 3 days into January and just getting around to a hasty update. As I get used to my new planner, I am thinking about how fast the years have gone since 2000. I rang [...]
Never fear fellow Long-Islanders, Spring is almost here. After our six hour defensive driving course (I know, I know–how lame, but we’ll be spending 10% less on car insurance and we did not even switch to GEICO) Sam and I wandered down to Cold Spring Harbor and then made our way back to [...]
Sam and Ashley are newly married and settling down in Long Island. Check out our wedding pictures