Maybe I’m dating myself…but did your pediatrician use a milestones chart during your babies’ first year of check-ups? Ours was included in a small booklet that I still have tucked away. During those first twelve months of well visits, the doctor not only logged my little one’s weight and length…
Category: Five Minute Friday

Determined
We are not a military family. However, living within the shadow of the Pentagon, we definitely live in a military community. Many – if not the majority – of my neighbors, and/or those I interact with daily are connected with one of the military branches. And ask any group of…

What is Important
I’m at a certain season of life. Not necessarily a certain age, although I am facing another “milestone” year in the coming months. But, more appropriately, that my life is seasoned. Matured. And while it is true that we are always learning, I hope what I have already experienced along…

Christ’s Expectations for Those Who Would Follow
Expectations. There are plenty of expectations all year long – but turn the calendar to December and the expectations automatically go to a whole new level. Our own expectations. Those of family and friends. Even co-workers, neighbors and that bell-ringer giving his time who certainly expects you to give in…

The Joy of Conversation
It is no secret that I enjoy mornings. A morning person through and through, not only do I most enjoy the first hours of the day, but I am also the most enjoyable during those first few hours. Just sayin. It is also when I am most productive, most creative,…

Laying Up Treasure
I am not a saver. I am not a minimalist either – not even close. I do not get rid of things simply in order to have less, but I also do not hold onto things. Pack them and/or store things away. I used to convince myself that I was…

Just Outside the City
There was a time – granted, it has been a while – when I seriously, and enthusiastically, considered myself a “city girl.” The reality was (and is) I am as suburban as they come. Neither city nor country. I imagined having to love critters and other creatures great and small…

The Key to Effective Teaching
Friday. And that means Five Minute Friday – a weekly linkup and writing exercise that I always enjoy. I enjoy the free-style writing – and the rather quick thinking over a prompt as I tend to be an extreme overthinker – and I enjoy the community of writers. I have…

Avoiding the Muddied Waters
Come out from among them is a thought taken directly from scripture. It is often quoted from the New Testament but is a principle found throughout both the old and the new testaments. The principle of God’s people separating themselves from the world – from its sin and its sinful…

The Advantage in Slow Days
I once read “A truth about the Lord is not truly ours until He works it into our daily life.” I wish I had said it myself but, nonetheless, I am glad to have the truth of that statement tucked away in my heart. I love Bible studies and I…

Longing for More Than “A Return to Normal”
I looked up the definition of recover. One of several definitions (and the one that most quickly comes to my mind) is “the return to a normal position or condition.” The return of normal. How often have we heard that sentiment….as it refers to our day-to-day lives and post-covid thinking? …

Hidden in the Tent
After the defeat by Ai, Joshua (like many of us) cried out to God, “Why?” You might be familiar with the story. God told Joshua there was sin in the camp. “Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken…