How To Love Your Children

How To Love Your Children

Not long ago, it dawned on me that I have invested all kinds of effort into learning how to love my husband – and yet I can’t remember a time that I intentionally did the same with my children! Suddenly, the question of ‘how to love your...
BBQ Black-eyed Peas

BBQ Black-eyed Peas

Last But Not Least Third and last in my small series of cooking with dried beans is my BBQ Black-eyed Peas recipe. They are by far the most well-received by my family, and in fact, they are our favorite! Growing up, traditionally prepared, Black-eyed Peas made an...
Lentils with Pasta

Lentils with Pasta

A Confession I have a confession to make. You may have already guessed it from comments I’ve written in other recipes, but – my family generally doesn’t love beans. They have always gratefully eaten them, but it was a chore. And for the life of me, I...
Hope In Christ Alone

Hope In Christ Alone

Let’s chat about Hope It took a few infinitely disturbing moments to climb out of my sleep-induced stupor before realizing from where the dark clouded anxiety was coming. I had another nightmare. A dream filled with ‘old ghosts’ of despair. And...
Grammie’s Best Pinto Beans Recipe

Grammie’s Best Pinto Beans Recipe

I can’t say if it was the culture from my Southern folks or if it was their particular taste. I didn’t grow up having this Best Pinto Beans Recipe bless our family dinner table. Blackeyed Peas were my mom’s dried bean of choice – and those we...
War Of Words | Book Review

War Of Words | Book Review

War of Words: Getting to the Heart of Your Communication Struggles Author: Paul David TrippSeries: Resources for Changing LivesPublisher: P&R PublishingPublished: 1/1/2001An important and biblical book about our words and our God. Few of us really think about the...