My scripture for today comes from Proverbs 19:21. It says, “Many are the plans in a person’s heart but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” What a timely message to remind us that God’s purpose will always prevail. The definition for prevail is “to prove more powerful than opposing forces; be victorious.” Yes! Yesterday… Read More
A couple of weeks ago–something amazing happened in my life. I turned the big 5 – 0! And yes, we celebrated. While I’ve always known that life is precious, these days I really take that to heart. LIFE IS PRECIOUS! Every single day is here for us to celebrate and live with joy and purpose.… Read More
We love to camp! We love being outdoors, taking walks, playing games, sitting by the fire, and roasting marshmallows. This past weekend our whole family went camping to Gordonia Altamaha State Park. It’s an interesting little state park almost smack dab in the middle of downtown Reidsville, Georgia. We had 15 people, 3 tents, 1… Read More
I have a calendar that sits on my kitchen window sill. It has Bible verses and then someone’s thoughts about the verse for everyday. Before we left for Mayo on Tuesday, I took a photo of the verse for the 16th on my phone so I would have my little nugget for the day. Here’s… Read More
The title alone is a mouthful. You must be wondering …. where is she going with this blog? The truth? All over the place! Let me start with the word STRESS. We’ve been feeling it a little bit over here in our little piece of happy. But I didn’t realize how much stress until I… Read More
We are almost at the 1 year mark when the doctors found “rare cancers cells” and declared that I was no longer in “remission”. I had my colostomy reversal on July 19, 2018, and it was during that procedure that doctors found those “rare cancer cells”. It was also a time when we decided to… Read More
2 years ago I was living in Honduras being a mama to 2 sweet Honduran babies, hosting our 2nd mission team, and loving life. But I wasn’t feeling great, and our family doctor came by and sent me to the hospital in Santa Rosa for an appendectomy. 4 and 1/2 hours later our world was… Read More
Today is a day for double duty. We have 2 procedures going on in 2 different places. Leighanne is getting her wisdom teeth (all 4) removed while I will be at Mayo getting my port removed. Both will involve a little bit of “feel good” meds, but I suspect Leighanne will have the worse side… Read More
We just left the doctor’s office at Mayo. Do you see those smiles? That’s because my CA 125 marker was normal and my nodule was declared stable and no new growth. Y’all—after the last 72 hours we needed some jump up and down good news! Praise the Lord for His new mercies every day!
Do you remember reading the story called, “That’s Good, No, that’s Bad”? It’s a story about a little boy who has all of these situations occur back-to-back that either become “good” or “bad”. For instance, he gets a balloon—that’s good right? No, that’s bad—it takes him away from his family. The adventure continues until **spoiler**… Read More
