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My family’s favorite summertime meal is grilled flat iron steak, tomatoes with fresh mozzarella and basil, corn off the cob (to avoid orthodontic disasters) and fresh peaches or berries. We just discovered a dark chocolate sorbetto that tops it off perfectly, a sweet...
"Girlfriend!" How many times have you made this desperate call? From the store fitting room or the hospital waiting room, a good, godly girlfriend is often the first one we call. We call in crisis or in happier times, like when the last pair of clearance shoes is our...
Like most girls I know, I cannot imitate noises like cars, motorcycles or machines... but if I could, I'd insert a drum roll here: Introducing the Cafe Kit- - an adorable little box stuffed with everything you need to start your own Neighborhood Cafe women's Bible...
Today may be the first full day of summer, but we've been in summertime mode around our house for weeks already. Sleeping in and swimming pools have filled our agenda... or lack thereof! Even my friends without children tell me they enjoy summer's laid back leisure. I...
My color coded calendar is lit up like the Vegas strip with verifiable excuses. Purple family events like travel and doctor visits. Yellow business deadlines. Green dates set aside for friends. Trying to be a godly wife, raise a teenager, run a business, manage a...
Blame your pituitary. The reason you wake up one minute before your alarm clock, scientists say, is that your pituitary gland pumps you up with stress hormones right before the time you told your body you wanted to awaken. And here I always thought it was God. He...
Long before Lancaster Community Church became part of my routine, I used to have my own version of “L.C.C.”: the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, coffee and cigarettes. Each Sunday morning I could be found on the patio doing the local newspaper’s crossword puzzle – in pen! I...
Does the Lord ever slay you with just one verse? He stopped me dead in my tracks during my devotions last weekend. My failsafe, foolproof devotional is to read the Proverbs “chapter of the day” and a few Psalms each day. This takes me through two “wisdom books” each...
Did you ever have a Cleopas kind of day? He was one of the men moping along the road to Emmaus on that first Easter Sunday. Not knowing he was walking with Jesus, Cleopas complained about the events of the past few days: "…but we had hoped that he was the one who was...
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