Tweet Saturday I sat in a room surrounded by women who have shaped my life. Some of them were family, many of them were simply women who have taken the time to pour into my life.  As we celebrated my upcoming marriage, I looked around at the faces in the room and can tell you each one of them has lived up to the advice given in Titus 2.   Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness. By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children, be virtuous and pure,…

Tweet Ever notice how for some people serving just seems to come natural? It’s not a job or a chore, they just do it.  Lately, I have been in very close contact with a family who serves as a way of life. (and by close contact, I mean living in their house)   This past week, I got a ride to work one day because my car was frozen shut and another day I went out to a cleaned off, warmed up car.  Today I got breakfast. Most nights I get dinner. After an unfortunate flat tire in -3 degree weather, an air compressor showed up to inflate the flat…

Tweet I am officially finished!!!   This morning I woke up, took a deep breath, and realized a huge weight is gone. All those papers and projects and textbooks are no longer hanging over my head or sitting on my desk longing to be read. I can now write MPA after my name if I want. Soon enough there will be an expensive piece of paper hanging on my wall signifying a lot of hard work, sweat, tears, and sacrifices. On top of that, I even finished it out with a 4.0 GPA.   Now that I am finished, I have lots of plans of things to accomplish. First off, I…