On July 5th, I bought an airline ticket to Syracuse, New York, to participate in my 50th high school reunion in August. I had been planning on going for about a year and would be gone for five days while my husband stayed here to watch our...
My father was raised on a farm in Illinois and was put to work helping in the fields when he was five or six. Even though he left farming behind when he graduated from high school at 16 and pursued a career in business, later in life he...
My husband and I married in early 2019. Having decided to wait a couple of years before having kids, I did not expect to see two pink lines (positive) on a pregnancy test a few months later. Excited to surprise him with the news, I bought a...
As a young teenager, I was always curious about the Bible -- but many times did not understand what the verses meant. The two verses that became a significant part of my life were Psalms 46:10: Be still and know that I am God and Psalms 34:18...
On December 26, Sam, a senior football player at the local high school our oldest daughter attends, was in a serious car accident at night on his way home from work. When his car rolled, he was ejected in a field and suffered a traumatic injury...
My wife and I moved to Fulshear last year in May. We began looking for a new church to get planted in and discovered The Fellowship where we absolutely love the messages and the welcoming atmosphere. The first time we ever attended...
Anyone who has ever endured a miscarriage knows how hard it is to allow yourself to get excited when you once again conceive. Always lurking in the background is the fear that you might lose this baby as well. My husband and I had been...
I love a quotation from Michael W. Smith’s song Friends – “A friend is a friend forever … if the Lord’s the Lord of them.“ Nevertheless, over time we tend to lose contact with friends from our childhood...
It was a normal Saturday before Christmas and I headed out to do errands. My husband was home pulling decorations out of the attic to delight the grand kids. We planned to go to the movies when finished with our tasks. Around dinnertime, I...
Nine years ago on Christmas Eve, our family arrived home from China with our newest member – an almost four-year-old, profoundly deaf son we had just adopted. Because of severe language deprivation, he was quite delayed in communication...
