On a mission to create and inspire peace, love, trust, and harmony among believers of Christ…
Some years ago, I wrote a piece about a vivid memory I had regarding Mother’s Day. Try as I might, I could not find it today when I was searching for it. I couldn’t even recall where I had written it. Was it a blog post? An unpublished story? An entry in an old journal?…
My fiftieth birthday is looming. In about two and a half weeks, I’ll be half a century old. This has been weighing on me a bit. Usually, I don’t think twice about getting older. I feel like the lessons I’ve learned over the years have been well-received and that God has always blessed me with…
Today I was applying for a job online and part of the process involved writing a 500-word essay about our happiest memory from childhood. Now, I’m entering my fiftieth year on this planet and trying to conjure up a childhood memory these days isn’t as easy as it once was. In any case, I was…
I recently received an email from one of the many podcasters/educators that I listen to as a resource for my publishing business. In the subject line, the title said something like, “How to make more (expletive) money!” My first thought was, “How tacky?” and my second thought was, “When did we get to a place…
Five siblings live a happy life out of an abandoned camper in a national forest – cooking by the fire, foraging their own food, washing their own clothes, tending their own camp – the only problem is that they aren’t sure where their parents are – and that they’ve caught a mysterious shadow watching them…
Read more First Chapter Fridays! The Wild Camper Family by Timothy D. Starnes
Raising children has never been an easy task. But today, we seem to be facing many challenges that our culture simply wasn’t prepared to face. With the rise in the rate of depression and anxiety cases among children as a result of last year’s COVID lockdowns and mandates, we should be very concerned about the…
It’s almost impossible to have an intelligent discourse with someone these days when it comes to politics, religion, or any other matter of substance. It’s really not even a simple thing to debate mundane matters if you think about it. But, lately I’ve been compelled to weigh in on some things which have made me…
I hold onto things. Keepsakes, mementos, people…you name it. All of these things are pieces of who I am, for better or worse. Thankfully, there are some things I have managed to allow myself to give up along the way. Things that were damaging, limiting, and just downright silly. Things that always were and will…
In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life. ~1 Timothy 6:19 NIV~ My Easter weekend was strangely exhausting and tinged with sadness and anxiety. One would think that after spending time…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Don’t Stop Believin’…or something like that…
Leading the Follower 