Seeing the Best in People (and Cats)

Young children tend to see the best in people, don’t they?  That’s why, for their own safety, we need to teach them to rein in their blind trust.  We must strike a balance in this so that we may also teach them to love others as God has commanded us.  As I discovered today, this childlike naivete apparently [...]

Gas Pumping by Committee

 We’re a little spoiled here in Oregon.  We don’t pump our own gas.  According to state law, the gas station attendants must fill your car with gas.  No one I’ve asked has seemed to have a complete understanding of the reasoning behind this law, but I do believe that it inflates the price of our [...]

Being a Faithful Woman in a Faithless Age (Part II)

It’s so good to be home after our road trip to Bellingham.  God truly blessed us in keeping the traffic to a minimum (Portland to Seattle and vice versa on the weekend can really be horrible), giving us beautiful weather (we saw the sun!), and allowing us to have some wonderful fellowship in Him.
We really [...]

Bible Reading and Sibling Rivalry

Recently, Kendall informed me that she was trying to read through the Bible in a year.  Apparently, her NASB Study Bible for Girls has a schedule in it that she is trying to follow.  Everything I’ve heard about it since then has been about her stress at being behind and feeling like she couldn’t catch [...]

Being a Faithful Woman in a Faithless Age

I am excited to be working on my church’s committee which is charged with planning an upcoming fall ladies’ retreat and another proposed ladies’ conference or retreat for next year.  In my experience, it seems that women’s ministries can easily get stuck in the “Proverbs 31 rut” or the “pop-psychology rut”, where they start with the application of truth but never [...]

Last Day in China and Home at Last

Note:  This is the last in a series of posts chronicling our adventures in China from February 26, 2008, to March 13, 2008.  To find earlier posts on this topic, click on the Travel category.
I last blogged about our busy sightseeing Tuesday in Beijing.  Wednesday, we kept the plans to a minimum since we had [...]

Rejoicing in the Gospel

“Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.”
–Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Four people testified of their salvation in church this morning, either for membership or baptism.  It was an overwhelming blessing to hear their accounts of [...]

Four Things…

Loraena at Unmeasured Grace tagged me for this meme.  Yeah!  My first tag.  So here goes:
Four jobs I’ve had:

Tax Manager (also Senior Accountant and Staff Accountant) for a CPA firm.
Check counter.  Seriously–I counted checks using a machine.  This was a temp job with a bank and every month when they needed to send out their [...]

Why I haven’t blogged

Yes, I’m delinquent.  But for good reason.  One of my goals before we left on our trip was to get our tax returns filed.  Because of last minute trip preparations and the fact that I had to spend a significant amount of time working on my church’s finances the week before we left, the tax returns [...]

T-fizzle…

Well, my grand intentions of blogging from Together for The Gospel fizzled spectacularly.  I underestimated the schedule demands in Louisville. This will sound like a bunch of excuses but here goes:
1.  I was dragged to a sports bar to watch a Red Wings hockey game Monday night, thus putting me back in the hotel around [...]