What is beautiful? Katie Piper contemplating her life a year after she was assaulted. "In the last twelve months, I’d seen humanity at its worst, and its best, too. Had it made me a better person, deep down, underneath the scars? Had it made me more ‘beautiful’, in a...
Nurturing a Healthy Family Brings Smiles To be a parent is a high calling, a huge blessing and responsibility. It's more than meeting the child's physical needs but nurturing and guiding them too. In the book Released from Shame, Sandra Wilson explains clearly how a...
"How we look determines how we live...if we live." Ann Vaskamp Where do you look for hope? (faith in God, your family, materials, and/or your job?) Where do you look for rest and restoration? (fellowship, relationships, drinking, shopping, television, etc?) These are...
The Wise are Smiling Two men are talking about the Egyptian Pharaohs and one is calling all of them liars. The other man says, "I accuse only the first. The rest were simply repeating the story they were taught. Old lies are passed along, not by new liars, but by new...
“The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.” Robert Louis Stevenson 5 Things I am thankful to God for today: 1. I visited the Batu Caves today in Kuala Lumpur and had no scary experiences with the monkeys. Yesterday it was reported that a monkey had...
"What change do you want to see in the world? What role will you play in that change?" (Unknown author) You don't know how that person's day is going. You don't know that sales clerk and their story. You don't know that stranger who walks past you on the sidewalk....
Networking and Generosity The most obvious lesson in Christ’s teaching is that there is no happiness in having or getting anything, but only in giving. ~ Henry Drummond Denny is a natural networker and lover of meeting new people. Through his research of meeting...
Counting this post I have taken 1,000 pictures I am doing my first guest blog on The Mosby's in China (which will be posted on Tuesday). This blog talks about Heather and her husband Zac's adventures in China teaching English. She is a lover of Jesus, witty, bubbly,...
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Find Your Dessert in the Everyday Sugar isn't the healthiest ingredient under the sun but our bodies are addicted to it. I am addicted to it. I love chocolate chip cookies. Even better (if I am going to say that I am going to stay away from wheat) gluten- free...
