Christian Women's Lifestyle Blog

by Marcie Gourley Most of life isn’t lived under bright lights. It is lived along dimly lit paths, not dark enough to lose our way completely, but not always clear enough to see very far ahead, either. Sometimes this leaves us feeling lost, or anxious, or cautious. We are on the kind of path where you take a few steps, adjust your footing, and keep going, trusting that what you need will be visible when you need it. I remember a hike like that. It was later than I had pla

by Suzanne Woods Fisher When my editor called two days after I sent her the manuscript for Chase the Light, I braced myself. Two days is fast. Really fast. In my experience, fast usually means one of two things: either she loved it so much she couldn’t put it down, or there were big problems. “I read it in two days,” she said. “And I have no revisions.” I actually laughed. “Really?” “None. It’s ready.” That’s a moment every writer dreams about. The wow moment. The o

by Cindy K. Sproles My mother will be 100 years old in August. Most folks who make it to her age are sporting around a grocery bag of medications. Mom takes a blood pressure pill and a thyroid tablet. That’s it. To be one-hundred, Mother is exceptional. In fact, she’s so exceptional that she turns out a queen-sized quilt every other month. We rent a climate-controlled storage building to house her, over eighty, quilts and wall hangings. None of which Mom will sell. I ofte