What is a home anyway?

What is a home anyway?

What is it that makes a house a home? Is it the time spent there? If so – many of us in today’s world wouldn’t need homes because of the demands of work. I often hear people share stories about being at home only long enough to eat a quick bite of dinner and then go...
What is a home anyway?

How long can we postpone the inevitable?

In October our washing machine decided it no longer wanted to work. It would “stop” mid-cycle and make this incessant beeping noise for about 30 seconds and then would just quit. If you messed with it long enough, it would ultimately start again, but personally, I...
What is a home anyway?

Happy New Year!!!! Gutting a Fixer-Upper

When Hurricane Katrina hit, Williamson’s Chapel was ready to go be the hands and feel of Love in those ravaged areas. We began ongoing mission trips to help communities in Mississippi and Louisiana being rebuilding! One of the things you became REALLY good at if you...
Self-pity is Addictive!

Self-pity is Addictive!

Sometimes it is easy to start feeling sorry for ourselves. We feel as if life isn’t fair . . . that things are happening to us in rapid successions that are life-suckers instead of life-givers. We ask, “Why me?” While these are normal things to have...
Self-pity is Addictive!

Do you know any Debbie Downers?

Ever heard the adage “misery loves company?” Well, sadly it is true! When one is commiserating, it is never difficult to find a partner. “Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary...
Self-pity is Addictive!

The Result of NOT Changing!

“I changed but he/she didn’t.” Far too often those are the words uttered when people find themselves at impasses in their relationships. One changed, grew, and developed and the other one stayed the same. Whether we like it or not – life is a...