3 Reasons for Planning – Part 1

3 Reasons for Planning – Part 1

Planning. It’s how I begin each new week and each new morning, and for 2025, I started a whole new approach to planning. (More to come.) But for 3 very simple reasons, planning is paramount in my life. Some reasons are simply because I’m 56 now and I HAVE to write...
How I Help Clients Design Their Kitchen

How I Help Clients Design Their Kitchen

While I was typing out today’s title, “Design Starts with Purpose” I couldn’t help but think about Proverbs 25:11 – “An idea well-expressed is like a design of gold, set in silver.” (Good News Translation)  There is no other...
5 Ways to Bring Cheer To Your Home

5 Ways to Bring Cheer To Your Home

Cheerful. That is such a wonderful word to describe a home, isn’t it? .  When used in the form of a noun, it means “optimism, happiness and confidence.” An example of cheer as a noun is, “His dad was full of cheer as he watched his son play his...
Making Home

Making Home

When it comes to the special projects in our home, it had to be creating a dining space that took the most “Rip work!” We wanted the dining space to have a look and invitational feel to it like what you’d experience in an old southern antebellum home...
Spiritual Carcinogens

Spiritual Carcinogens

John MacArthur cautioned Christians, back in May 2017, regarding their effort to avoid and eliminate sinful spiritual toxins from their life. He said … “Consider a person who exercises fastidiously and holds to a strict diet but also abuses alcohol and...
Nathan Isaac Harris’ Baby Dedication

Nathan Isaac Harris’ Baby Dedication

Nathan Isaac Harris had his baby dedication ceremony at Broadmoor Baptist Church a few weeks ago and it was not only THE sweetest thing…but the family came together to just enjoy being “one” in committing to him and to his parents, as we all...
To the Older Women

To the Older Women

Now that I’m 55 years old, I read a devotional like the one below with such eager spiritual eyes. Now that I’m a grandmother, and with many young wives and mothers now divinely placed in my life, being the ‘older woman’ that Paul instructs is...
Every Step

Every Step

It was a nice day on October 18, 1994, when I went for a walk while waiting and praying for my first born to come. The due date was long past and the anticipation of holding my baby in my arms was motivating me to do all I could to encourage their coming! And it...