Anyone who knows me realizes I am not a night person. My brain begins to shut down about 8:00 p.m. and by 9:00 p.m. I am ready to hit the hay. However, over the past couple of weeks, my sleep schedule has been disrupted by balance beam routines, 100 meter runs and unimaginable flips and…
A few weeks ago, my husband and I went canoeing with family members down the Pere Marquette River near Ludington, Michigan. I think it’s taken me this long to write about it because there was some trauma involved, but now as I reflect back, I realize there were many life lessons we can learn from…
I recently returned from the annual college women’s retreat I co-lead with a former classmate. Spiritual in nature, our theme was “Connecting the Dots in Relationships.” Our goal was not only to reconnect with the women we went to college with but to also reconnect with God. One of the women attending the retreat for…
Pardon me, but I am relatively new to Twitter. To understand how it works, I thought I’d follow some of the Christian writers and speakers I admire like Beth Moore, Andy Stanley and Lee Strobel, to see what tweets they came up with. Through the process, I realized you could not only tweet, but you…
Today as I took my morning walk on our neighborhood’s scenic walking and running trail, I made an observation: People no longer stroll babies; they run at top speed with them! A dad was racing behind the baby I observed this morning, and she was reaching her hand out as if to say, “Dad, stop! …