• Mom and Dad with two small children as a family walking in the sand at the beach on vacation

    Why I’m Teaching My Kids to Swim

    We vacation to the beach almost every summer. It is our happy place, our home away from home.  We love the sunshine and the warmth of the sand on our toes. When we are by the sea we channel our inner creativity as we build sandcastles and drawings in the sand. But I have a confession. I sometimes pray for a storm to brew. I sometimes pray for the sea to show it’s other side, for my children to see God controlling the winds and waves, and to witness just how quick a storm can come upon us in this life. It is a great time to teach them how…

  • happy woman laughing and dancing in sunflowers and bubbles

    Delight Yourself In The Lord

    I read a morning devotional the other morning while cleaning up the breakfast dishes. It came from a devotional notepad I have on the window sill of my kitchen window. I purposefully place it there so that throughout the day the devotional thought can be read multiple times.  This particular verse was a verse that I have read no doubt hundreds of times. “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the Lord. These words kept coming back to me during the following hours of the day. They repeated in my head that evening as I made dinner. Delight…