It is the early morning of my wedding day.  I, naturally, cannot sleep.  I awoke to thoughts of how many candles needed to be upstairs in the ceremony hall versus downstairs...what to do with the mic being so far from where we are sitting, etc.  Ah, the details ( Read more... )

16 days...what the heck?!  Only 16 days?

I do not believe I have ever been busier in my life of 28 years.  Really.

I love you. 

Still so, so much to do.  It is a tough time for me emotionally.  Since Luke, this house has been such a refuge and I, possibly more than other women, feel this more strongly because I must leave...AGAIN.  I was always so independent from my parents, to a fault.  But, now, I must actively chose order instead of disorder.  I have to select normalcy ( Read more... )

I am really, really going to be his wife.  Really ( Read more... )

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal.

Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing;
Were not the right Man on our side, the ( Read more... )

In this age of grotesquely broad-brushed generalizations in the media, largely propagated by the left, I thought it might be fun to kick around a new one here.  Lets see how it flies ( Read more... )

My child has a Tigger costume, how about yours?


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I'm wedding-stressed.  Funny how one day can close and new one open into anxiety upon waking.  I had tortured dreams last night, too.  Anyone get really freaked out by the content of one's mind from time to time?  I do.  I am reminded of the Charles Spurgeon quote on a Truth Project slide:

"You cannot slander human nature;  it is worse than words ( Read more... )

It will be good to be married to him.

Today I woke up to laundry and a room I no longer wish to clean.    There are bags upon bags of wedding decorations piled behind my wardrobe to keep Luke away.  I understand that soon-very soon-I will be the "mistress" of an entire home (!!!) and that means that all of these things in here must be boxed and ( Read more... )

Thanks again to John_Piper for a great analysis of our rush to the cross of Jesus for purely utilitarian purposes.  It is in death we find life...that is, death of selfishness...death of our "self actualization".  Sorry, Maslow.  
(I got the name right, honey!)

"...It is profoundly wrong to turn the cross into a proof that self-esteem is the root of ( Read more... )