by Alison Ingersoll | Mar 4, 2015 |
The following is a true story. As I was leaving Sunday school, I was chatting with a friend, and I could tell that Jim was kind of hanging around like he wanted to talk to me. I’m not sure if I had even spoken to him before. I had been gone for two months that...
by Alison Ingersoll | Feb 18, 2015 |
It was an unusual place to be in complete darkness. My husband and I had planned a little Valentine’s Day getaway last weekend just for the night at a nice hotel only thirty minutes from our home. We had checked in that afternoon, gone out for a wonderful dinner,...
by Alison Ingersoll | Feb 4, 2015 |
Whatever it was that they had, I wanted it. They had peace and didn’t worry all the time. They had a healthy self-esteem and felt good about themselves. They had a special joy about them. These things did not describe my 16-year-old self. I had never met anyone like...
by Alison Ingersoll | Jan 21, 2015 |
“Purpose? Me? This blog doesn’t apply to me. God could never use me.” I’m confident that there are women who will find this blog and will think that – that God can never use them and therefore there is no great purpose for their lives. Maybe it was something they...
by Alison Ingersoll | Jan 7, 2015 |
There is something wonderful about the start of a new year, isn’t there? A clean calendar and planner to fill in. The promise of a fresh start and the anticipation of what the year will hold. Maybe relief that the last year has ended because it was full of...