“The fear of public disgrace never forced me to keep silent” (Job 31:34 CEV). Public speaking. Does that phrase make your liver quiver? It does just that to a lot of people, including me. Yet that’s how I make a living these days. And thankfully, after a long pandemic lull, invitations to speak at church ...
Listening at the Keyhole
I experienced the most heart-warming Grace Note this week. Here’s how it went down. I’ve been slowly but surely cleaning out boxes of my mother’s things that I just wasn’t able to face all at once after she graduated to heaven nearly two years ago. So this week, when I extracted a sheaf of papers, ...
Vanity, Thy Name Ain’t Woman.
I don’t think I’m vain. Do you think I’m vain? Nah. I don’t think I’m vain. But maybe vanity is one of those qualities like humility – the second you say you aren’t it, you’ve just proved that you are. Anyway, I stepped out of the car across the street from my church this morning ...
I Pledge Allegiance
With America’s Independence Day weekend nearly upon us, I’ve been thinking about a word we don’t often use in our everyday vernacular: allegiance. According to Webster, allegiance means loyalty. A quality that does seem to be a smidge anemic in our current It’s-All-About-Me culture. I think back on my childhood when we pledged allegiance to our nation’s ...
Papa’s Rocking Chair
Before I launch into today’s post, I want to say that the winner of my BFF Club drawing will be announced at the end and thanks to those of you BFFs (Blessed Friends Forever) who entered! Okay, let me ask you a question, my friend. Comfort: Where do you find it? One of my earliest ...
Welcome New BFFs!
Well, dearest friends, I understand we have a new influx of BBFs, who are now officially BBFFs (Blessed Blog Friends Forever), joining our awesome community of girlfriends and I want to extend a HUGE WELCOME to those here for the first time. Many are dipping their toes in the Too Blessed to be Stressed blog ...
Marvelous Mothers
Hey dearest BFFs, we’ve got some winners in my Magical Mother’s Day Giveaway! Out of the hat at 4 pm today randomly leaped the names of three blessed moms … I’m so happy for you all! The two Mother’s Day winners who each will receive a copy of my book, Too Blessed to be Stressed ...
Un-jamming the Creek
As born and raised Floridians, my family has delighted in experiencing spring in the Smoky Mountains for decades, even before we inherited the tiny, remote cabin built by my in-laws at 4200 feet elevation back in the early 1980s. There’s just something about the physical awakening of life in a previously frigid, barren landscape that ...
Opening Your Gift
We all have gifts. Oh yes, we do. Don’t sit there and forlornly shake your head at me. Even you have a special talent, my dubious friend. Yep. Gifts given to us by Papa God, that we can choose to mine, sharpen, polish and use … or simply leave buried. I’ll agree that it’s easier ...
The Fragrance of Easter
Don’t you just love it when you read a Bible passage you’ve read a hundred times before and suddenly your spiritual eyes are opened and you see an old, old story from a shiny new perspective? (Nod here to my Granny’s fave hymn: “I’ve heard an old, old story, how a Savior came from Glory ...
