This month at Awaken, our women’s brunch and Bible study, we covered the first 3 chapters of Relentless by John Bevere. Such an insightful week. The thing that struck me the most from the book was when he talks about the following verse at the end of chapter 3. We also discussed it in our […]

The next writing prompt in “God is My Happy Place” is “The book of Proverbs by Solomon holds profound wisdom. What is a proverb you live by?” 5Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. […]

  Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, & Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer The book walks through her life from her point of view. She discusses with great detail what it was like to grow up in the The Fundamentalist […]

  We had a blessed evening at an Operation Christmas Child Event the other night. The picture was our keepsake to remind us of Yves Dushime’s powerful testimony, which he gave that night. It is also the testimony of what God can do through sending shoeboxes to children around the world. He received a shoebox […]

My parents came to visit from Oklahoma. It was so good to see them. We had an amazing time. Following is what we did, including some pictures. Day 1 They arrived. Yay! We visited. I showed them around some. They checked into their hotel room. We visited for a while longer. We went out to […]

The next writing prompt in “God is My Happy Place” is “If you never chase your dreams, you will never catch them.” I recently went to the Grand Canyon, which I will write about soon. However, I was inspired by the birds flying over the canyon to write this poem. I feel like it fits […]

We have started up Awaken, our women’s brunch and Bible study, for this year at One Church Scottsdale. We are reading “Relentless” by John Bevere this year. We have just started it & it is so good. We started off discussing the verse that starts off chapter 1. The end of a matter is better […]