Everything started here
I started writing on a blog called 29 Lincoln Avenue sixteen years ago. The name for my first blog came from the street address of the home I grew up in a small town in Southern Indiana. I loved the idea of inviting you into my “blog home” every week.
It was through learning to write and create content there (and then here) that I discovered my love for words and my voice as a writer. When I started, Twitter and Facebook were the rage and blogging found a unique place that would be writers (like me) were able to practice publishing more than a handful of words at at time.
Through blogging I started writing books. I am eternally grateful for that opportunity to put something more of my heart in the hands of those who are bookish by nature.
But even with Instagram, youTube, and every other social media option out there—I still love to add a few words here.
And I suspect I always will.
Handprints
What is it about the handprints of our little ones that make us all weepy and sentimental? We have a rule at our house about saving artwork from church our school. If it is laminated or a handprint - we save it! Everything else, well you know the drill. I know that...
Does Modesty Matter?
Leave me a comment about how you are encouraging your girls to dress modestly and be sure to check out the MODsquad blog today for more on this topic! The winner of the $35 gift certificate to Dayspring is Sherry from Lamp-Unto-My Feet! Congratulations friend! So...
Multitude Monday
Counting 1,000 Gifts #439 You still do miracles. #440 Nothing in your ways ever need mended. #441 You are steady. #442 Your works are complete. #443 You are faithful in all you promise. Each week I take time to intentionally be thankful to the One from whom all...
Bragging On You!
Psst. Guess what? I've been blogging for a whole year. Can you believe it? Do you know what has been the best part of all? YOU! Let me brag on YOU for a minute: You are faithful (stopping by often). You are an encouragement to me (best comments ever). You share...
Books That Pass The Test
We love books at our house. I was thinking the other day, that we could use about 20 more book shelves! We are overflowing with more books than we have space to fit. But the books that pass the test, are the ones we want to read over and over again. They become...
No Gift Is So Precious
"Give Me thy heart", says the Father above— No gift so precious to Him as our love; Softly He whispers wherever thou art, “Gratefully trust Me and give Me thy heart." Hymn "Give Me Thy Heart" by Eliza Edmunds Stites, 1898 Join me at the MODsquad blog as we continue to...
Back To School
#2 pencils. Fresh box of crayons. Pages yet to be read. New stories to be written. Lessons to learn. Tomorrow we go back to school. Back to reality. Our schedule shifts into overdrive and begins to fill up with activities. I really needed this summer break, more than...
Multitude Monday
Counting 1,000 Gifts... #431 One year of new friends. #432 One year of sharing my heart. #433 One year of dreaming, creating, and growing. #434 One year of encouragement. #437 One year of big steps of faith. #438 One year of seeing You do more than I could ask for or...
Chair Time
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8 He is the same. He does not change. The same God who flung the stars into place, has created a story just for you to shine in. The same God who led His people out of slavery wants to set you free...
Prayer
As I was sitting down to write this post, a quote by Max Lucado popped up in my Twitter feed: The power of prayer is not in the one who says it but in the One who hears it. You know what I think? He wants us to lean in a little closer so He can whisper this great...