I made these beauties for dinner this week.  The geeky part about them is that I found the recipe on a banner ad and I was one of the few people to actually roll over the ad to find and print the recipe.  Let me know if you are interested in the recipe and I’ll…

Yesterday my pastor talked about Christian maturity, in reference to Phillipians 3:20-21.  Basically in this passage, Paul states that “our citizenship is in heaven”. With this in mind, he asked, “What will stir your soul in a way that would cause you to live out your citizenship in heaven?”.  And then today I read from…

Wow.  I can’t believe it is time for another Thankful Thursday, so I guess one thing I’m thankful for is that this week is going fast!  Here’s my list: Olive Garden on a Wednesday: The way that I was raised was to view restaurants like Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Outback as fancy restaurants.  Now,…

As I reflect on the Resurrection of Christ this week, I’m in awe.  For one, I feel as if God is revealing new meaning to it that I never understood before.  Today I read a quote from Oswald Chambers that reveals why: God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His Spirit.  An…

I realize that my familiarity with the gospel has robbed me of truly knowing and letting it impact my life. In preparation for Sunday, I am going to be reading in Luke 22:1-53. The following is an important quote from my reading today, “Instead the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the…

For this Thankful Thursday, I’m not going to do a list, but rather a flow of thoughts about what I’m thankful for this week. This week it is my husband.  More and more I realize why God put him into my life, and more and more I’m understanding that he is helping me in my…

Just wanted to share the words of Paul in Philippians 3:12: “Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it….

This week I’ve been looking forward to  Thankful Thursday because I’ve felt a lot of blessings just in one week.  Here goes: 1. Our taxes are finished. This is one thing that was hanging over my head because I had a lot of loose ends to make it happen.  I guess when you live in…

Lately I’ve felt like a bit of a nomad – from traveling with work more frequently and having things scheduled on back to back weekends.  At the same time, I’ve felt the pressure of work gradually rising, with patience gradually dissipating. So when I realized the weekend I thought I had free was the one…

In the mornings I usually make time to read some of the bible and some of the devotional, “My Utmost for His Highest”.  In my opinion, this has been the best devotional I’ve ever used because I can use it daily year after year and still get something from it. Anyway, yesterday I was reading…

It’s been a while since I participated in  Thankful Thursday , but I’m in the book of Phillipians right now, which has an overarching theme of joy in the midst of hardships. While I can’t say that I have struggled quite to the degree of Paul when he wrote this, I do feel convicted that…

Today I’m in Seattle for business, and I just realized how grown-up that sounded.  It is in this time where I’m about 10 minutes until we depart to meet one of our newest clients.  I think this is the time period when I get the most nervous. In many ways the pitch is the honeymoon…