As 2013 winds down and I start looking ahead to 2014, I find myself longing for more of what really matters. More laughing with my daughter, more lingering conversations with friends, more holding hands with my husband ... just more of the things money can't buy. This year has been been filled with some incredible moments and accomplishments but it also brought some of the most difficult days I've faced as an adult. When I started reading Priscilla Shirer's latest book, God Is Able, ... [Read More]
Let Hope In: The Book Everyone Needs to Read
Bold statement, huh? I know. But truly, Pete Wilson's latest book, Let Hope In, is one of the most truth-filled, grace-filled, books I have ever read. I wrote a little bit about it on Hope for the Weary Mom last month ... but I have so much more to share. In case you are wondering if you should read this book, ask yourself these questions: Do shame and regret regularly influence my thoughts about myself and my life? Do I struggle with surrendering my plans to the Lord? Am I focusing more on ... [Read More]
Being OK with Where You Are {book review}
When I give my "it" to God I am not setting it free to fly and let the universe decide to bring it back or not. Instead, I am surrendering my plans to a personal God who loves me and knows what is best for my heart. Being OK with Where You Are I have no idea what your "it" is ... in fact, some days I'm not even sure what mine is. I'm sure I did know, long before the laundry piled up and the pre-algebra homework lasted until bedtime. But now, somehow, I just feel like I'm treading ... [Read More]
Pouring Rain, Power Outages, Panicking Dogs, & Proclaiming the Best Book of 2013
I may have mentioned here {or on Facebook, I can't remember because I'm over 40 and I have a teenager and my brain can only store so much data and that space it totally full with the due date for ads for the football program and asking people to save their empty toilet paper rolls so we can use them to make spirit sticks ... because really, what says "Go Team!" like a toilet paper roll filled with candy? ... now what was I saying ???} ... Pouring Rain Oh yeah, it's been raining here in ... [Read More]
Where Did Baby Jesus Go? Or A Review of Let. It. Go. by Karen Ehman
As much as I like to think my years on Paxil have eliminated all the control freak tendencies inside my little type A head and heart, I suppose I'd be lying to myself and everyone else if I didn't 'fess up to the conviction I felt when I started reading Karen Ehman's latest book, Let. It. Go.: How to Stop Running the Show and Start Walking in Faith. Seriously, when Amy asked me to join the blog tour team, I really did think, "Okay, but I am so not that girl anymore. I don't worry about things ... [Read More]
Seriously God? by Jenny Smith{book review}
This is the first post in a new feature here on Fresh Perspective ... All Things Book-ish. I'll be sharing reviews and recommendations of books I've read as well as offering my "ruminations" about what I'm reading, how I choose books, etc. This will *hopefully* be a weekly(ish!) feature. "Will I—could I—be willing to stop playing my faith so safe, asking only for what seems possible, and exchange that for a faith that is willing to risk everything on the name of Jesus?" from Seriously God? ... [Read More]
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