Photo Credit: akaak19, via Free Images Last night the power went out at 6 PM. We live in Florida, and it felt close to 100 degrees in the house, so we immediately vacated the premises. Our air conditioned vehicle transformed into a safe haven on wheels. We had time to kill — the automated voice…
Photo Credit: Humusak2, via Free Images Growing up as a Cuban kid in Miami, the pressure cooker was a staple in our kitchen. Mom used to put all sorts of root vegetables in there, and then she’d stick them in a blender with chicken broth and make a yummy soup, which we called…
Photo Credit: Flavio Takemoto, via Free Images I’ve had a lot on my mind lately. My husband is hurting, and my best friend is hurting. We’ve laid two loved ones to rest this year. Grieving is hard. I wish I could make things easier for my hurting loved ones. I wish I could take…
Photo Credit: Samuel DaSilva, via Pixabay One of the tough questions I have to answer when I meet with my spiritual accountability partner is “Are the ‘real you’ and the ‘visible you’ consistent?” Really? No. My answer is always no. No, because the “real me” is a whiny, self-centered, messed up blob of flesh….
Photo Credit: PDP via Pixabay When I got married in 2009, we decided to forgo cable. The budget was tight, and we didn’t watch a whole lot of TV anyway (this was our reasoning.). The problem was that I live in South Florida, and I like basketball. When Miami unexpectedly acquired LeBron James, suddenly not…
Photo Credit: PDP, via Pixabay I think we’re sometimes in the habit of seeing only thimblefuls of God’s activity occurring in our lives–and considering that to be normal. We think small things are all that God is capable of doing because that’s all we’ve ever seen Him do. So we walk down to the…