Category: Just for Fun

Weekend Prayers and Links

The weeks long campaign that I’ve been a part of speaking truth into Fifty Shades of Grey and promoting Pulling Back the Shades is coming to an end today as the movie is released. I know most people, maybe even you, are tired of the bombardment. I even saw this post today on Facebook:

I could say a lot about this post and the comments people made comparing the Fifty Shades of Grey posts to the yoga-pants ban post (Did you catch that one?) and the infinite number of anti-immunization posts. But at this point there’s no point.

We all have to stand for something.

My something may not be your something, and praise God for that, because if my something and your something and everyone else something’s were identical there would be a lot of unmet needs in this world.

Personally, this is my litmus test for what to stand for or stand up for or speak out about:

Is this an eternal issue?

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February 13, 2015
Weekend Prayers and Links :: Pulling Back the Shades

If you follow me on Facebook, especially, you know that I have been blowing up your feed with posts about the book Pulling Back the Shades by Dannah Gresh and Dr. Juli Slattery. This is in response to the movie, based on the book Fifty Shades of Grey, that is scheduled to come out in about a week.

Friends, the reason I am so passionate about combatting Fifty Shades of Grey with Pulling Back the Shades is because every woman I know deals with the effects of sexual sin – either her own sexual sin or the sin of people in her life. Many women across this world are real-life sex slaves. Yet we fictionalize sexual sin and pretend it’s not real. Stories of erotica, pornography, sexual bondage, and just plain, old-fashioned sex-out-of-wedlock, like Fifty Shades of Grey, are not make-believe. It’s time the Church talks about that fact.

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February 6, 2015
Weekend Prayers and Links

Overall I consider myself a nice person. I say “please” and “thank you” and most of the time even “yes ma’am” and “no sir.” I am from the south after all.

I always use my blinker, even when turning into my driveway. If you try to do something to help me I make sure you really want to by asking, “Are you sure?” a hundred times. I smile at everyone I see.

But put me in a public place, such as a grocery store, and all of a sudden my eyes go red and my fangs come out. It’s as if walking through the automatic doors transforms my body into the Wicked Witch of the West. With everything in me I have to hold back screaming, “Get out of my way!”

In public my flesh is real.

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January 30, 2015
Weekend Prayers and Links

Recently I’ve been beating myself up over a question that parades through my mind regularly.

“How did you let that happen?”

I think back on my life past, and I ask myself this question about many situations. I go down the mental path of different scenarios of what I could have done – but I didn’t.

Sometimes my regret gets out of control. I just dwell on the past so much that it becomes an obsession.

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January 23, 2015
Weekend Prayers and Links

I know you’ll understand this feeling.

This past November I had a miscarriage. The baby was due in July. This past week two of my friends told me they are expecting babies. Their babies are due in August.

There are a rush of emotions that bombard you when you receive news of blessing after your same blessing became a tragedy. In my younger days, jealousy and envy would have been a part of those emotions. (How many bridesmaids dresses do I still own?) And I think that’s natural. Not good, but natural.

However, this time I can honestly say that it wasn’t jealousy or envy that I felt. Instead it was a barrage of questions, the first being:

What are you trying to teach me, Lord?

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January 16, 2015
Jewelry that Matters :: Gracewear Collection Review

Do you know what stresses me out the most about Christmas – or any holiday for that matter, including birthdays? Buying gifts. I love to give gifts, but I don’t love to buy them – meaning pick them out, not spend the money. Gift choosing is not my spiritual gift.

What makes it harder is that recently I’ve been overwhelmed with all the stuff around me that I don’t use and that doesn’t mean anything to me. So when I go to buy gifts, I don’t want to give someone something that will be considered more stuff for them either. It’s a waste of money for me, and it’s a burden for them. I want to give them something that has meaning and is useful because that’s what I want in my life.

Gracewear Collection is the perfect place to shop for that useful and meaningful gift.

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January 14, 2015