C.S. Lewis on Writing

“What really matters is: –

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure y[ou]r. sentence couldn’t mean anything else.
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.  Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do.  If you mean [...]

Undeserving

This is all I know
Hands are shaking here
Voices in my head
Light is nowhere near.
Deep within my tears
Your face is all I see
You know my deepest fears
Your love is pulling me.
  
Surprised beyond my dreams
To see You standing there
The One I hated so
The only One who cares.
Mountains start to fall
I’ve never been so free
I fall in love [...]

Fashion Fridays!

Who doesn’t love a good deal?  And there’s one to be had every Friday over at Christa-Taylor, one of my favorite online clothing stores!  C-T’s “mission beyond business” includes donating a large portion of proceeds to a Cambodian orphanage.  Miss Taylor is a Christian young woman with a passion for fashion and God’s glory.  Check [...]

What’s Wrong With Me?

Has there ever been a guy in your life who made you ask this question?  Or maybe it was a girl friend.  As soon as you started hanging out with this person, you started hating the way God made you.  You began to wish you were prettier, thinner, more athletic, more girly…just plain different.  The [...]

Making Memories

Last night I was driving with my softball team to our play-off game a few hours away.  Our drive was really pretty, past rolling hills covered with evergreens and quirky small towns, in the heart of California’s logging country.  We’d all been through the area before, so there were lots of familiar places outside our [...]

God of the Brokenhearted

Lately I’ve been wondering what it means to have a broken heart, because there are times when mine feels cracked around the edges.  I know what it is to cry myself to sleep.  I know that there are times when I wonder if anything will ever be the same again.  I know what it is to be [...]

Perfectly Matched

My neighbor and family friend owns her own horse-drawn carriage business. Her barn is filled with exquisite antique, refurbished, and custom-made carriages that she drives for hire at weddings, funerals, in parades or at special events.  She has two gorgeous black Shire horses that are brothers and best friends and so perfectly matched that it is [...]

Happy Mother’s Day: Thank God for your Mother

“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” – Chinese Proverb
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always [...]

Of school and rain, sunshine and prom, dumb blondes and Jeeps, softball and car washes.

Outside my window… the rain has gone away and everything is beautiful and sunny.  The sky is so blue and there are three little hummingbirds drinking at the feeder, some with ruby-red throats.  Everything looks so much greener.  After this muddy, miserable, wet weekend, the world feels like a child that has just got over [...]