Category: Five Minute Friday

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.” …

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…