Virtual VBS Week Six Highlights

It’s Week Six — the last week of Virtual VBS for GrownUp Girls® 2017! Can you believe how the time has flown by? We’ve learned so much, savoring the Scripture together… Here are the highlights from our Facebook group, where we’ve been meeeting this year. This week’s assignment: Choose one more translation you haven’t used […]

Lost in the Land of Longing

“You know what I long for, Lord, You hear my every sigh.” Psalm 38:9 NLT The Psalms are just drenched —  dripping — with longing. Longing for peace and prosperity. Longing for health and healing. Longing for deliverance, for victory, for salvation, justification, vindication, reconciliation. Longing for truth — honesty and integrity. Longing for answers […]

Today Is the Day I Quit

What do you need to quit today? Bob Goff Quote

It’s Quit Something Thursday. Have you heard about this? It was inspired a few years ago by NY Times best-selling author Bob Goff, who says he makes a point of quitting something every Thursday: He looks at his life and chooses something to let go of, something to take off his overcrowded to do list. He […]

On An Ordinary Day…

... Miracles Can Happen!

The face of all the world has changed ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quote

We’d been friends for over twenty years, seen each other through a lot of life. A lot of ordinary days. We’d laughed together, cried together, prayed together. Talked for hours and hours on end — neither of us very good at bringing a great conversation to a close. Every now and then, she’d simply say, “On an […]

Fun Friday: Great Reads

Free Printable Bookmark

We’re at the end of Week Three in a five-week summer Bible study we call Virtual VBS for GrownUp Girls. If we were really at Vacation Bible School together (wouldn’t that be fun!), we would definitely have some time set aside for sharing songs and stories and doing some fun crafts. And snacks… don’t forget […]