Living Real

Babies are so cute. Then they grow up. I'm teasing! I love 'em! I'm just glad my job is now spoiling them, not raising them!  On Mother's Day, 2009 we had eight families stand before God and Church of the Cove to covenant together to bring their children up in the nurture and admonition of [...]

I went to the ladies breakfast this morning, unconscious of the fact that a tornado had landed in Magee, Mississippi just a scant 10 miles from where our pastor's extended family lives and his wife is visiting. We talked about that news and heard what had happened to a church there, one where a friend [...]

I have a new husband.  Jack's always been a man of compassion and love, with that spark of silliness to boot, but he's different now. He accepted God's call to go someplace he wasn't really looking to go to. He went to Haiti.  He saw garbage-laden streets. He smelled the filth and the sewage. He [...]

Have you ever been just reading along in your Bible and come to a place where you stop and say, "WOW!"? I did that yesterday as I was reading through Deuteronomy 17. I've been familiar with the way Israel sought out a king like the nations around them had, but this floored me:

I really think God is up to something in me — and in my ministry. I mean, why else would He have so much of the same information coming across my screen and across my desk at the same time? Since September, I've known there are changes we need to make in the realm of [...]

I'm thinking about "doing" Christmas differently this year. Join me?

It’s been a long day, but normal Sunday stuff. Our praise team practice was awesome — it’s so much more than practice, it’s worship. Then I get home tonight after experiencing God’s presence in worship with the praise team, seeing Him work in the lives of high school teens and hearing about how He is [...]

Sometimes, I feel like God just blesses me when I really don’t deserve it. Which then makes me think, when DO I ever deserve it? I went through a stressful day yesterday. I really don’t like conflict. Not on my own behalf. I’ll go to battle for my kids, my husband or my friends, but [...]