Megan was home from school this past week for spring break. It was nice to have her home (and I liked sleeping in every morning!). It’s hard to believe that there are just ten weeks of school left in the year. Soccer will begin in one week and there are only six [...]
I’m home from the all-nighter. Even though I didn’t get to the church until 1:45 a.m. (I got to sleep a few hours before I arrived) I am exhausted. I came home and had breakfast before crashing. My kids are such good sports. It is 12:30 p.m. and they are still [...]
It is MainStreet night. On the first Wednesday of every month our church sanctuary is transformed into a kid’s world. The rows of chairs are stacked and moved down the hall in exchange for carpet seating. Kid’s sized buildings and other fun props fill up the stage.
At 7 p.m. kids of all [...]
My cell phone rang today while I was sitting in church. Yup, right in the middle of the sermon. I’ve never bothered to change my setting to vibrate because I rarely get phone calls from anyone other than my husband who happens to be in church with me. The display said “private [...]
Tonight in small group (we are studying the Beatitudes) we were discussing Biblical characters whose lives demonstrated meekness. Two of the examples we thought of were Joseph and John the Baptist. We started to compare and contrast the two and quickly realized that they received two very different “rewards” for their attitudes of [...]
What does that word mean? That was the question posed to me early Saturday morning while driving a group of students back to church during our all-nighter. We were stopped at the intersection of downtown Romeo. The light had just turned red. It was after 1 am and the streets were empty. [...]
It’s a good thing that I got all that sleep yesterday because I won’t be sleeping again for the next twenty-four hours. Tonight is our annual Light Force All-Nighter. I’m looking forward to hanging out with my favorite bunch of middle school and highschoolers, getting shot at while playing Cosmic Paintball and making [...]
For the fourth year in a row I have not been able to sit through an entire Christmas Eve service. This despite the excellent service featuring MainStreet followed by worship. The culprit…my son. Every year he finds a way to be distracting enough to leave the service. At least I wasn’t [...]
So, for the last couple months, I’ve had a thought floating around in my head. Its sort of like a theological conversation in my brain. I usually don’t talk about these things, but since this is my journal, I can write whatever I want, right? It all started when I saw The [...]
