Our guest blogger today is Shirley Surtani Gomez. Shirley is a blogger and a college-level teacher of “English as a Second Language.” Shirley recently moved to the Nashville, Tennessee area after many years of living in Dallas Ft. Worth and serving as an ESL professor at Dallas Baptist University. Before you all get misled into…
“Our favor is for God’s purpose, not for status.” Christine Caine As I listened to well-known author, speaker and warrior against human sex trafficking, Christine Caine yesterday, I chewed on her words about “calling,” especially the part about pride. Coming out of a media background I’ve struggled with the “P” word. You know one of…
Our guest blogger today is Martha Leeper. Martha is a retired stewardess/flight attendant that became an accidental artist. She often dreamed of painting so on her journey of retirement she took a painting class at the community college within walking distance from her house and there she began this journey at 65 years of age. In the…
Our small backyard was like a jungle. The greenery behind the pool was out of control and I didn’t dare venture into the sea of trees and bushes. I had no idea what critters were roaming in there. So, while I was away on a ministry trip this week, the landscapers came and trimmed it…
My husband and I saw the movie Gold last night. It’s about a man, who, in a last ditch effort to save his mining company, sells all he has to chase a dream of finding gold in Indonesia. While I didn’t like his over-drinking, disheveled character, there was something admirable about a person who gives…