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What I’m Reading – October

It’s a new month and my pile to be read is still well-populated. Here’s what I’m reading this month:

The Bible – spiritual nourishment I can’t do without

Legal depositions – my paycheck depends on summarizing what I read

You’ll Get Through This – new release from Max Lucado. This message sounds like just the encouragement I need this fall with a busy football season.

Fired Up – the newest release from MaryConnealy and I’m looking forward to a fun read as her characters inevitably find themselves...

Tools For The Journey – Face The What Ifs

Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but won’t get you anywhere. ~ Unknown

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith. The beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. ~ George Muller

I read once that no more than ten percent of what we worry about ever happens. In the meantime, instead of making forward progress toward our goals or investing energy into relationships, we’ve wasted countless hours dwelling on the what ifs.

What if I get sick? What if I lose my job...

Creation Declares – Amino Acids

Remember chemistry class in high school? Or maybe this topic only came up in advanced organic chemistry or honors biology classes. The collection of hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, and oxygen atoms depicted in the image is the basic foundation of something known as an amino acid molecule.

Amino acids are the building blocks that create proteins and proteins are necessary to help your body repair damage, rebuild, and get stronger. Therefore, cells, tissue, enzymes, muscles, and your brain all get t...

A Football GIVEAWAY

What are you doingtonight? I’ll be watching my sophomore son take snaps under center during his school’s varsity Homecoming game. (No pressure for this football mom!)

Football has been a part of my life since I was an infant and my parents took me to games. Growing up, I was the tomboy who played football with the boys at recess. Then, I married a football coach, hauled our kids around to games, and now our oldest son is continuing the tradition.

The bright lights, pep bands, cheerleaders, and...

Tools For The Journey – Banish The If Onlys

There no two words more capable of stealing your joy than if only.

If only I had picked a different major in college. If only my parents had stayed together. If only I hadn’t gotten sick. If only I had a nicer car or house or bigger bank account. If only my boss was nicer or I got a raise. If only I hadn’t made that stupid choice and now faced the consequences. If only I had a boyfriend, was married, had kids, the kids were out of diapers, in school, could drive themselves places, were out of...

Creation Declares – DNA

Imagine a code made up of only four letters. How complicated could it get?

Complicated enough to hold the secrets to why some cells become part of a brain or heart while others become bones or skin or toes. A code that dictates hair and eye color and determines whether ear lobes are attached and tongues are capable of curlng. An essential-for-life code contained within the spiraling double-helix structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) found in the nucleus of every cell.

Long strands of alterna...

Paper Or Plastic?

The age-old grocery store question has a new meaning today when it comes to reading.

I remember when e-readers first came out. With a tight budget, I couldn’t fathom spending that much money to buy a device and then have to pay for the books to put on it. Beyond the money, I couldn’t imagine leaving behind the intangible satisfaction of opening a brand-new book with crisp pages or fingering the worn paper of a well-read classic. My dream house would have a library with overflowing bookshelves...

Tools For The Journey – Drain The Cesspool

The recent flooding that swept through my town and state left damaged roads, soggy homes, overturned cars, scattered debris, layers of mud, and giant pond-sized puddles. The water that remains is an ideal breeding ground for bacteria and in many places has been tainted with raw sewage. While some crews focus on stabilizing and rebuilding roadways, others are concentrating on cleaning up the mess.

It’s a mess similar to something I read recently in Charles Swindoll’s book Growing Stong In the S...

Creation Declares – In His Image

What is the crown jewel of creation? You are!

After speaking into existence light, land, sky, the sun, moon, stars, plants, fish, birds, and countless varieties of animals, God turned His attention to a very special creation … mankind.

“Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ So God created mankin...

What I’m Reading

Since I am an avid reader as well as a writer, I thought I’d take today’s post to share what I’m currently reading and why. The Holy Bible – Because I need to be daily reminded of the Truth. Legal … Continue reading →

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