Well I have just dropped off the face of the blogging earth here lately huh?! I kept thinking I hadn't blogged in like 3 weeks, but when my friend Sarah Mae  teased me about it on the phone last night, I realized that it has been nearly 6 weeks since I last posted! Oh Mylanta! And the funny thing is that I'm running this little (actually really big) blogging conference … [Read more...]

Restless. I've felt it.  Maybe you've felt it too.  Restless that there MUST be more that I can do, be, gather, and join for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. And tired...tired of the minutiae that divides followers of Christ instead of the magnitude of a cross that joins us. Excited too...because I feel a stirring within my spirit.  A movement that is on the horizon.  And … [Read more...]

I had a moment today that was just too funny not to share. A couple of weeks ago, I used some spray suntan lotion on my eldest son and it gave him a nasty rash.  Said rash has continued to bother him and he has scratched it into an infected mess.  So off we headed today to the pediatrician's office to get it taken care of amidst another day of torrential downpours here. We … [Read more...]

So, I'm at the lake in VA with my dear friend Sarah Mae and our families, and we thought it would be a great opportunity since we're together, to share with you a few reasons that we think you should join us at Allume this October. Here are our Top 5 Reasons you should join us October 24-26th in Greenville, SC for Allume...with a little personality tossed in for good measure. … [Read more...]

I've often found myself wondering how I, just one gal from South Carolina, can make a difference in the globe.  I'd be willing to guess that you've asked yourself the same question too.  And sadly, I think somewhere along the way, I resolved that I wasn't entirely sure that I could do anything myself, but I could at least support missionaries who were...or who seemed to be.  So … [Read more...]

The following excerpt is from a post I wrote back in January when I was in Bangladesh.  And though I live in the US, and these women in Bangladesh...at the end of the day, our mother's hearts are the same whether we're American or Bangladeshi....British or Japanese...Canadian or Russian...Brazilian or African...French or Iraqi.  The thread of motherhood may not look the same, … [Read more...]

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." - Mike Tyson Some days feel like a punch in the face...or that everyone seems to be trying to punch you in the face. Let's just be honest about that. And a lot of the time, it's not that they are even necessarily intentionally dealing out a jab or a left hook to your jaw...it just feels that way.  Because people … [Read more...]

You must know that the news of the Bangladeshi factory collapse has broken my heart.  I've been thinking on it for the past couple of days and wondering how a people group has ever become so dispensable for the sake of cheap clothes. As most of you know I spent a week in Bangladesh in January with Food for the Hungry.  I logged my journey for you to follow along.  Here are all … [Read more...]

It's funny really....to be planning a blogging conference and to simultaneously struggle with even getting blog posts written.  I mean, I've had a couple here and there, but I tell you what...balance isn't something that gets handed to us on a silver platter is it? So that's what I've been trying to do. Trying to find balance...and realizing that it's not something that's so … [Read more...]

I am so excited to share something with ya'll today! Awhile back I wrote about my dear friend, Sarah Mae's book, Desperate – Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe.   Embarrassingly enough, I hadn't even completely finished reading it myself at that time and hadn't gotten far enough to realize that 3/4 of the way through I'm mentioned in it!  And I have to say... it's fun to … [Read more...]