Author: Diane Smith
What’s in a Name?
Many of you may recognize this banner from our church or maybe from some other place. It was in our sanctuary for many years and…
Imperfect is Okay
My oldest son got a paper route when he was about twelve. Every morning before school he would deliver the newspaper to the neighbors on…
Adding to Our History
Here’s what I wrote in my journal a month later.* I was disappointed because we couldn’t have our annual Christmas party at the shop because…
Anxiety Strikes Again
If this post seems familiar, it’s because it’s a repeat from last year. I recently came across another journal entry that I did about a…
So Glad to Be Home
I had been in the hospital for four days from a gallbladder surgery complication. While under anesthesia my heart rate dropped to about 25 so…
Love the People, Hate the Sin.
By the time our children were ready to go to school my husband and I were both believers. We wanted their teachers to have a…
Would I Be Better in a Different Church?
This entry is sort of a part two to my last post, “A Time of Blah.” I was still feeling sort of blah and wrote…
A Time of Blahness
It feels sort of sacrilegious to use the term ‘blah’ in connection with God but the blahness has to do with me, not God! I’m…
Get the Verses ~ Pray the Verses
I had been talking to the Lord about whatever was going on with me on this Saturday afternoon in 2013. I was happy because I…
Second Guessing Yourself
I’m assuming I am not alone in having times of kicking myself for either not speaking up about something or saying too much. I so…