Small-Town Christian Romance Author Julie Arduini
Weaving faith, family, and chocolate in stories that feel like home
This is the day where I share my own amateur nature picture with a thought or two on God’s love. The day started with high hopes. Busy day. Within 40 minutes, nothing was going the way it was supposed to. I assigned blame and stewed in frustration most of…
This is a re-post from May 2011, the Saturday before Mother’s Day. Tomorrow can range in several scenarios. I remember as a kid riding down a country road seeing a woman pushing a lawnmower. She looked hot and tired and what I remember the most was who was watching—a man I guessed to be her…
I’m not someone to freely display their emotions. When my now husband proposed I wasn’t the one screaming and calling my parents, it was my roommate. But once I opened the door of my wounded heart and invited Christ inside, the Lord and I started a journey. For those that see Him as uncaring and…
The Guard at the Tomb 62 The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63 “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64So give the order for the tomb to be made…
It took me years after having a real “let’s be friends, I believe in you” relationship with Christ before I understood Good Friday. I’m sad to see most people either not understand or even care why such a day exists. Lord help us that it would always mean more than part of Spring break. I…