A Baby and A Bed

What ages have been hardest for you?  I still think that being 14 is the age I’d never want to re-live, but thirty-five was also a hard year for me.  That year it hit me that life wasn’t turning out the way I had expected – and I also had to face the reality...

God and Grandparenting

This week in my Bible studies we looked at our identity as a child of God.  Since I was blessed to have my earthly father until he died earlier this year, I have been able to understand God as my Father from the perspective of a child.  But part of God’s plan for me...

Exodus and the Last Supper

As we finished our study of Exodus on Tuesday night, one of the women shared that studying it had “made the New Testament come alive”.  I love that!  And I knew exactly what she meant. One place where studying Exodus has made the New Testament come alive for me is in...

Feeling Inadequate

This blog post is a guest post, written by a dear friend of mine since college, Jean-Marie VunCannon.  Jean-Marie is the Director of Women’s Ministries at Arden Presbyterian Church in Arden, NC and sends regular emails to encourage the women in the church.  This...