Month: January 2012

we sat around the room catching up on our weekly events. whose kid is sick. who is pms(ing) (yes we talk about this). who can’t believe they have a child entering high school. all while drinking our breakfast or what you all call coffee. and then it came. the dreaded “ice- breaker” question. the one…

this past month as i have been posting and have had other amazing writers post on ways that we have seen and experienced what it means to live a radical life for Christ. these stories remind me of our powerful and victorious King. it also reminds me that we didn’t all start our walk of…

this weekend we get to celebrate the teachers birthday. to the kids this means donuts, cake, and hopefully some serious sledding. to the teacher is means donuts, cake and avoiding injury while trying to win the race down the hill(ok so we are all a tad competitive in this family). to me it means yogurt,…

this morning i wanted to share with you a challenge that a fellow writer has put forth. i am all about a challenge ( ask my blessings. i am ruthless when it comes to any competition that may or may not include candyland). yet this challenge that this sweet girl puts forth is no candyland….

when i was in elementary school my best friends were the ones that saved a swing for me at recess or traded their puffy stickers in our trapper keepers. we called random radio stations to request the latest richard marx song and ate marshmallow fluff sandwiches while giggling till late in the night. we spent…

i have a little confession. i have been ignoring my children since last tuesday. don’t get your panties in a bunch and go and call dcfs. they have been fed, clothed, done school, and gone to bed on time. whether or not what they ate was healthy i will keep that to myself. and we…

  at the end of december i asked my fellow writer and story tellers to allow this blog to be a venue of sharing how they are or have seen normal people be radical for Jesus…today we are joined by a fellow redbud writer judy douglass. i love what she has to say….enjoy~ “Joey and…

ok it hasn’t even been a full week of my “things I am not going to do this year” and i already have been having panic attacks. ugh. big ugh. i thought for sure i could get through a month without having to face down one of these issues. who was i kidding? within the…

in my previous post i had mentioned that these next few months i wanted  to write about radical ways we love Christ and love others. this is a subject that is my “on a soap box” issues. i  truly believe that we are called to live as radical believers. radical doers. radical givers. radical servants….

with every new year comes new resolutions. goals. to do lists. i can look at all of my old journals. and yes i am one of those girls that has my journals from elementary school. when i thought the worst thing in the world was that no boy would ever be taller than me. that…