Welcome back to Share Four Somethings, a monthly linkup I participate in with my friend Heather Gerwing at Living the Full Life. My girls and I are in beautiful Michigan this week, enjoying a respite from the hot and humid Memphis summer. We’ve even had to pull out sweatshirts on a couple of evenings! It’s been so good to be […]
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing […]
Last autumn, I embarked on an experiment in what’s commonly termed “hair training.” Essentially, hair training is the process of backing off on washing your hair until you can go several days without doing so, yet your hair doesn’t appear dirty or oily. The science behind this is pretty simple: when you wash your hair, especially with a sulfate-based shampoo, […]
From the time they were little more than infants, both of my daughters adopted security blankets which went with them everywhere, from bed to the grocery store to Chick-fil-A. My oldest girl’s attempts to say “blankie” came out more like “blank-on-nee,” which eventually evolved into “Connie,” thereby ensuring that in our home, all blankets would thenceforth be known as “Connie.” […]
Welcome to another round of Share Four Somethings. I can’t believe we’ve wrapped up May and are headed into full summer! I have some lovely things to share with you this month, so without further ado, let’s get to it. Something Loved I never knew I wanted a white denim jacket until . . . well, until I wanted one. […]
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. ” (Matt. 28:19-20 NIV) Do you ever worry that your mission field is too small? I do. When I get letters from missionary friends, many of […]
