{Five Minute Friday} View

Every Friday this amazing group of writers join together to write—unedited, fearless, and brave—for five minutes.  Our favorite (in)courager Lisa-Jo Baker, the Gypsy Mama herself, offers us a prompt and we write. This week’s prompt:  VIEW. GO My view is changing so quickly.  I used to look around and see […]

We ALL Have a Part in Freedom’s Story

This child? This girl all to quickly turning to woman?  I look at her and she takes my breath away.  She is funny.  She is bright.  She is the very best kind of friend.  She loves big and lives big.  She’s passionate and creative.  She dances and she cheers.  And […]

An Ode to Friendship {five minute friday}

Friend.  What a great prompt.  I don’t always get to join in with the Five Minute Friday girls but the stars aligned this week.  So, I just thought I’d write an ode to friendship … not sure how this will work in 5 minutes … but let’s give this a […]

We Must Act: 5 Ways to Fight Slavery

Slavery. This is a topic that matters to me.  It’s the reason I share about FreeSet and National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.  And it’s the reason I am a blogger with The Exodus Road. 27 million people enslaved. More than at any other time in human history. The vast majority of […]

9:02 pm on April 2, 2013 {the beautiful ordinary}

Last week my girl and I went to Missouri to spend Spring Break with my parents.  We had a great time and I thoroughly enjoyed being unplugged for a few days.  We came home Friday and spent Saturday at an Easter egg hunt with cousins.  Sunday was a beautiful day […]

When God Shows Out
{a Samaritan’s Purse update}

I love being a Samaritan’s Purse blogger.  What they do is amazing … through Operation Christmas Child, this ministry impacts the lives of countless children around the world. But Samaritan’s Purse does way more than hand out shoeboxes.  The Children’s Heart Project provides children with life-saving heart surgeries.  Through construction […]