Outside the Box

     T here are moments when the whispers of the Holy Spirit become the loudest things I hear. That still small voice loudly echoes over all...

It is one of the best things to open my November/December calendar and discover empty weekends this year! It’s still a novelty to have free...

After everyone went to bed last night, I sat down to write this week's FMF* on the word "try" when I got distracted by an emai...

The other day I googled "living with a deaf family member" in attempt to find something that would tell me how I'm supposed to...

Five Minute Friday (#FMFparty) gives writers a word prompt. We are encouraged to write whatever comes to mind about that word in just five m...

A few weeks ago, I began wondering why this person can take a vacation and not have to check in but I feel like I have to all the time.  The...

"Is this the emotional me or the Spirit-seeking me?" Such a thought-provoking question from a cherished friend!  It's one I...

There have been moments this school year that I feel like I truly cannot get my act together.  It's not the curriculum.  It's not my...

It seems like with every day of homeschooling, we are slipping farther and farther away from my picture of what homeschooling should look li...

I had one of those pleading, tearful, little girl, whiney "God, what in the world do You want me to do?" type of prayers last nigh...

"Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are--face-to-face!  They suddenly recognize...

Tonight is one of those nights when I wake up and suddenly realize where I'm at.  I'm standing here knocking once again on a tightly...

Have there ever been moments in your life when you find yourself wondering how in the world you got things so wrong?  Or, you had promise an...

"And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing; b...