Category Archives: FH Blogger Trips

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A Race, A Cause, And A Team

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For the last few years, I have started each year training for the Country Music Marathon. You see I am the type of exerciser who needs a good reason get myself off the couch and to the gym during the cold winter months. This year as soon as I realized I have a conflict the […]

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On Being Parentless

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I am 34 years old. I left home at eighteen and never looked back. Yet still one of my greatest fears, one of the things that keeps me awake at night, is the thought of losing my parents. Their sheer presence on this planet offers me a strength and a confidence that I simply cannot […]

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I Can’t Say Much But I Can Say This

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I returned from Guatemala two weeks ago. Wow…two weeks…14 days…336 hours. In some ways it seems like just yesterday, in other ways it seems like a lifetime ago. On Friday, Shaun Groves sent an email to the Compasssion Bloggers Guatemala team. I’ve been laying low, reading your posts, praying for you from a distance but […]

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Reconciling the Disparity

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Today we visited the Guatemala City dump. A place that is 1 square kilometer. A place where 20,000 families reside. A place where the water is unfit for consumption, even by a rat. A place where little girls go missing like discarded baby dolls. A place where vultures circle, searching for something, anything, to prey on. […]

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Controlling That Which I Cannot Control

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I tend to be a control freak. (more control than freak hopefully) Although I’ve always longed to be seen as carefree, spontaneous, even happy-go-lucky, I am more aptly described as responsible, steady, even predictable. Nothing scares me more than losing my sense of composure. So it makes it quite interesting when I do things that force […]

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My Faith Was Demanding It

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Six months ago, I wrote a post stating that I wanted to get my hands dirty. (Interesting to note that I also wrote posts about other big hairy audacious goals like getting married and having kids. And unfortunately I’ve got nothing to report in either area. NOTHING.) In the post I said, It is easy […]

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Mission Accomplished

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Yesterday I completed the Country Music Half Marathon. To be perfectly honest, I have been ACTIVELY DREADING the race for a couple of weeks. Mostly because I over-committed myself and I was straight-up freaked out about how I was going to feel as I tried to conquer the mountainous (okay, that might be a slight exaggeration) […]

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I Am…

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Powered by Hope On Saturday, April 24, I will be running (actually it will be more of a jog/walk combo per the Galloway method but who cares about the specifics) the Country Music Half Marathon. This is not my first half marathon and hopefully it will not be my last, but it is important nonetheless. This […]

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Processing

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Disclaimer: If you wanted something light and fluffy today, this post is not for you. But you can go here where we are discussing “guilty pleasures.” Disclaimer 2: If you wanted something that was poignant and tied up with a pretty bow, this post this blog is not for you. But you can go here […]

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Drafting Blueprints, Part 3

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This is the third post in my “Drafting Blueprints” series. The series is prompting me to think through what I want to do with my life as a first step for creating a life plan. I have already tackled getting married and getting fit. So here we go, Part 3…I want to get my hands […]