This week I got hit with the stomach bug — hence no midweek post. It laid me flat on my back. Fortunately, it was quick. But I’ve thought about grace as my plans for this week exploded around me. Two days of school gone thanks to the stomach bug. But God’s grace showed up in so many ways in the …
4 Steps to the Perfect Way to Read a Novel
Some would argue that there is no wrong way to read a book. With one glance at my towering stack of TBR novels, you might argue I’m the wrong person to write about the perfect way to read a book because obviously I collect them rather than actually read them. One look at our overloaded calendar and you might determine …
3 Tips for Loving My Now
As a mom who has so many irons in the fire, it can be a real challenge to sink into my now moments. Instead, I can easily be distracted by everything that’s on my list instead of taking the seconds, minutes, and hours that exist in today. Can anyone relate? It’s so easy to focus on the next 2 practices, …
5 Reasons Your Dream is Worth It
Last weekend, Eric and I got away…just the two of us. It was a much needed time to escape and reconnect. We are in such a busy time that it would be easy to just hang on, bury our heads and focus on simply completing the next task. Yet as we walked the streets of Nashville, Indiana, and stepped in …
Love books? Raise Money for a Good Cause
I’m SOOOOO excited to announce that the ACFW Foundation’s Spring Online auction is up and running. The ACFW Foundation is a 501(c)(3) that exists to raise money that can be used to offer scholarships to the ACFW National conference. Our dream is to also offer support to our chapters as we raise additional funds. If you’ve watched my writing career, …
Dreams: Stop Sabotaging Yourself!
Welcome back to another installment of our book study on You’re Made for a God-Sized Dream. In Chapter 8, Holley Gerth turns our attention to those times when we sabotage our own dreams. The chapter wasn’t exactly what I expected because she talks about burnout. I am so there. I’ve been pushing myself hard since August when I started the …
Struggles of a Homeschooling Mama: Algebra
As a second-generation homeschooler, not much fazes me. I’ve experienced it, heard about it, done it. However, we’ve just hit a stumbling point in our homeschooling. ALGEBRA. The big, bad, oh-so-necessary-to-graduate algebra. So what’s a mom to do when Algebra becomes a daily battle? Here are a few things I’ve done: 1) I’ve had to reexamine why I homeschool. Do …
Shadowed by Grace: the Lost Chapters
Today I want to offer you a treat. It’s something I hope you will enjoy and my way of saying thank you for reading my books and this blog. As you know, two months ago my latest book released: Shadowed by Grace. It’s a story of my heart, which means it went through several iterations. I’d worked on the idea …
Balanced: You’ve got to be kidding, right?
This week is one way out of balance. I’ve decided those are the times God most shows up. I am desperate for Him, and He meets me in my desperation. Over the weekend I got 24 hours to hang out with my writing friend Tricia Goyer. It was such a treat and delight…but if there’s anyone on the planet who …
What Happens When Dreams Go Wrong?
Ouch… We don’t want to think about it, do we? Those times when a dream completely derails. Or it somehow goes wrong in a way you never imagined or contemplated. God-sized dreams are not controllable. I was just telling Tricia Goyer Saturday that I firmly believe one reason God has me in publishing is that it is so outside of …