“If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, even there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will lay hold of me.” ~Psalm 139:9b&10~ How do you like to enter the water? Nowadays I’m a cautious, toe-dipping, a smidgeon-at-a-time kind of gal. But when I was young I couldn’t wait to jump in with both feet. …
Danger and Duct Tape by Angie Arndt
As I scrolled through the NetFlix queue, I noticed an old show I enjoyed when I was younger, MacGyver. (Like him, I can fix almost anything with duct tape and glue gun.) Each episode had the handsome hero build amazing contraptions with found objects. And each show was filled with suspense as he beat the clock to manufacture the means for …
A Safe Place to Rest by Angie Arndt
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 Driving down a curvy country road on …
New BFF Members on the Way!
It’s time for us to add a few new members to our flock, but I wanted to chat with my original adventurers first! Y’all have been amazing. Patient and full of grace as we’ve worked out some of the kinks and learned together about marketing In the Shadow of Jezebel. Yay, Waterbrook/Multnomah! Most of y’all are aware that I’m with Waterbrook/Multnomah for …
Who Has Bigger Hands by Renee Ann Smith
My grandmother fed people. The soup that simmered in her deep stock pot all winter long was ladled out to mailman and milkman and whoever happened by. Sunday meant roast and gravy and melt-in-your-mouth biscuits for those who gathered round her table. The typical bedtime snack for overnight guests would be root beer floats served in soda fountain glasses with …
Through the Pain by Angie Arndt
If you have a chronic illness, disease or syndrome, you know what it’s like to be miserable and misunderstood. There are probably times when you are so depressed, you just want to disappear. There may be other times when you feel so good that you overdo and really pay for it the next day. Then the cycle begins again. You …
