Excuse Me, But Do You Validate? “For in Him we live and move and have Our being.” Acts 17:28 I’ve been a social worker for over twenty years and many times I have said it’s not just a job, it’s who I am. At no time was that more true than when I worked for…
Give your family summer vacation a makeover this year and turn it into a “staycation.” Have your kids forget their summer boredom, turn off their screens, and instead circle the globe with Focus on the Family’s “World Explorers” summer adventure kit! Throughout the next two months, travel our colorful, diverse world, visiting 27 different countries on…
This summer, you can join Adventures in Odyssey’s Clubhouse Magazine and help children in the Middle East go to school and learn English. It’s Adventures in Odyssey’s Clubhouse Magazine Exercise to Educate summer challenge! The Problem Nearly 7,000 miles away from the United States, there’s a war going on in the country of Syria. Many families…
This is one of those posts that isn’t fun to write because it takes me back to a time I didn’t love and of course, I don’t come out looking too great in it. But I know I’m supposed to share it, and I believe it will encourage someone out there. Our newlywed years weren’t…
It was a story I never meant to write, and I struggled every word. When I finally felt I had a decent plot together and tackled it, I came up thirty thousand words short. Yep. Thirty. Thousand. Words. Even after I finished, something still felt off. Not wrong, just off. Once I started pressing in,…
Yesterday I alerted you to Sharon Srock and her Women of Valley View series. Today I wanted to showcase another series: The Mercie Collection Spotlight. Now Available! The Mercie Collection is three novellas in one: For Mercie’s Sake A victim of rape, sixteen year old Scottlyn Rich is disowned by her family when she refuses…