by Lisa-Jo | Feb 10, 2010 | Faith
Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm: He said: “Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge?” “Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.” “Have you entered the storehouses of the...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 5, 2010 | Faith, Sweetstuff
I read what you wrote. So many things are easier left undone. If you could only see my kitchen sink right now and the mountain of dirty dishes piled high in it, you would know that I know what you mean. Undone, unsaid, unchanged. We like to be comfortable. We like a...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 3, 2010 | Faith, Sweetstuff
Sometimes it’s easier to talk about faith than to wrestle with it. Sometimes it’s easier to love your kids than to pray for them. Sometimes it’s easier to clean your house than to face your mess. Sometimes it’s easier to say you believe than to...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 31, 2010 | Faith, Sweetstuff
Remember this ghoulish fall that I took? I never went to the doctor afterward. To the horror of my MD sister-in-law I never got it checked out. I never got an x-ray. Instead, I got on a plane 2 days later headed to a conference. And believe me, I wish I could have...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 26, 2010 | Faith, Sweetstuff
Remember those “word association” games? When someone says a word and you say the first thing that comes into your mind. For example, if I say “peanut butter.” You’d probably say, “jelly.” (Unless you’re British or South African, in which case you’d probably say jam....
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 22, 2010 | Faith, Kids, Motherhood
This boy. We should have named this boy Houdini. All last week he escaped his crib in the pitch black dark of his bedroom, over the side rail and via the changing table, dropping fearless down to the floor. At 2am he greets me nose-to-nose, eyeball-to-eyeball over the...