by krista | Jan 15, 2015 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
We worry about just about everything. We worry about how we look and what we weigh, we worry about getting sick, about getting hurt. We worry about being misunderstood, about letting people down. We start worrying early. We worry about getting good grades, graduating...
by krista | Jan 5, 2015 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
I planned to write a first-post-of-the-year about how awful 2014 was. I had it all planned out in my mind: Lots of whining and “nothing is going my way” and “woe is me” stuff. Pretty powerful. Incredibly pathetic. But God has been working on...
by krista | Dec 27, 2014 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
A friend of mine told me about the Waze app last year – it’s a GPS that not only tells you the best way to a particular destination, but also which routes have traffic delays at any given time. Others using the Waze app can add their comments – an...
by krista | Dec 24, 2014 | Christ life, Christmas, Favorites, Uncategorized
About that time Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Empire. This was the first census when Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone had to travel to his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for. So Joseph went from the Galilean town of...
by krista | Dec 15, 2014 | Christ life, Christmas, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
When we lived in Spain (2006-2007), we were surprised to see that political correctness was not an issue during the holidays. Our kids’ public school had a huge nativity scene prominently displayed in the lobby. Thomas was cast as a wise man in his Pre-K3...
by krista | Dec 8, 2014 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
Twenty years ago this week, Dave brought me home for Christmas. Except that he didn’t tell his parents we were dating. He hadn’t even told me we were dating. We had, in fact, been “hanging out” for about six months (yep, that’s months) and he had yet to declare his...
