How To Be Nice To Your Relatives

Ok here is the deal. There are probably only a few things you can control this Easter. Your kids may not sleep the night before; if you try to manage their sugar intake you are going to be miserable; holiday weekends can be a touch of crazy-town. But one thing you can...

Be All In

A few years ago this picture, not doctored or photoshopped, went viral.  Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey was reading the New York Times bestselling book  "The Case for Christ;" a book where the author, who is a legal editor with a background as an expert in research,...

One Heck of a Monday

It must have been one heck of a Monday. Can you imagine? The hope, the anticipation of what was yet to come? Yesterday was Palm Sunday, when we celebrate Jesus entering Jerusalem and the people laying palm branches down for the donkey to walk on as Jesus entered the...

Be Nice To My Friend

“Do I want to own this?” It's a great phrase to repeat to yourself when you clean out your house, but it also reminds me of a conversation via text a friend and I had back and forth last night. She said, “If that person knew the train wreck I am like you do, she would...

Easy Salmon Recipes You Will Want to Repeat

There are about 1000 different ways to cook salmon. For our family, I like to keep it an easy weeknight option, so I throw it in foil and stick in on the grill or in the oven. The prep is simple, the cooking time is short, and my people just devour it… those facts...

Spring Cleaning…What I Ask Myself

Ok, I watched the first episode of Marie Kondo's show, and I’ll admit it: her way of folding t-shirts and placing them upright in your drawers is actually kind of magical. You can see every shirt in the drawer without messing up the pile, and they do fit better. I’ll...

Soul Squeaky Clean

The drawer of my refrigerator finally wouldn’t open.  It was officially stuck.  As nasty as this sounds, an opened can of orange juice concentrate had spilled four months ago, and I kept meaning to clean off the sticky muck and yet I just didn’t get around to it.  So...

Inhale Confidence, Exhale Doubt

“Inhale confidence, exhale doubt; inhale confidence, exhale fear.” As I am thinking to myself, I hear my three-year-old’s feet scamper down the long hallway towards our room. He sneaks into our bed and places his head against mine, and it makes me think of how God...

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