by krista | Jun 6, 2014 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
I recently finished my second reading of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. I can’t say that I enjoyed the book. Those of you who have read it understand. It isn’t enjoyable. But it is good. Ultimately, though, for me, the author’s hamartia is far more fatal than...
by krista | Jun 4, 2014 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
Our lives are a story. And just like any good story, we have conflicts, obstacles, dynamic characters, plot twists, themes, protagonists and antagonists, even foreshadowing. And like the great stories, we have no idea how our stories are going to end. But I like...
by krista | Jun 1, 2014 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
School for us got out last Thursday (sorry to rub it in to those of you who still have a few weeks left!). At the end of the school year, I like to look back and see where I am compared to where I was. I look back over the past twelve months and evaluate my...
by krista | May 28, 2014 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized, Writing
I talk to and hear from aspiring writers who have ideas and dreams but are afraid – afraid they can’t do it, that their idea won’t be good enough. So they don’t start. These folks are usually perfectionists who feel that if they can’t produce a perfect product, they...
by krista | May 23, 2014 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
When my husband and I got married, we made lots of plans. I was finishing college, and he was starting seminary. The “plan” was that, when I graduated from the University of South Florida, we’d move to Dallas so he could complete his masters...
by krista | May 21, 2014 | Christ life, Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
More songs, poems, books, and movies have been written about love than any other subject. We love love. We long for it, hunger for it, diet for it, scheme for it. To yearn for love is not only natural, it is Divine. God has given each of us a hunger for true love. But...
