Just Like You

I knew there was that one toy we just had to have.
I knew there was that one toy we just had to have.
The holiday season is fast approaching! I know, it’s only the end of summer; before you know it though, Christmas will be just around the corner. What if this Christmas, you had time to breathe. Time to just be with family. Time with no worries about all the things you have to do. Time with…
Call me biased, but I have been SO eager to share this with you! One of my best friends in Minnesota started her own blog! It’s www.stephaniebrouwer.com and it is refreshing, real, hands-on, and incredibly encouraging!
100 Days of Less? Yes. I am going to go through my own house, find 100 things to evaluate, decide if I can “lessen” them or get rid of it altogether, while leading me to a more organized and simplified life. Why did I choose 100? Good question! When I was unpacking after a recent…
Living more simply for me, means living with less. Well, that also means living with less of ME. I read Romans 8 recently and I couldn’t help but think about how God has given us a new life, but how we try to fight it daily, by clinging onto our old selves. How about you?…
I remember waking up on Wednesday with such mixed emotions. I was excited to go to Belize City to experience the journey God had laid out for us – yet part of me was sad to leave the medical clinic. I felt our time there was short (and it was) and the missionaries and staff…
As the saying goes, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Dan and I have often said being in youth ministry, that we treat our youth group kids as our own. We always have. We talk with them, care for them, hug them, and cry with them, as if they were. That whole concept…