Feeding the Spirit to Defeat the Flesh The battle began at exactly 5:30 am.  My body lay wrenched across my bed snuggled deep beneath my fluffy and ohhh soooo soft comforter.  I heard the dreaded sound clanging like a fresh piece of chalk pressed against the board too tight.  Quickly, ...

Dear Mom, I don’t know what to say to you anymore.  You don’t talk to me.  You don’t listen and you are never home, so I thought I would take one last chance and write to you the old fashioned way. I don’t understand you anymore.  I thought we were ...

Parenting the Way They Should Go By Renee His small five-year-old hand lay gently in mine as we walked back to the van.  His beautiful boyish grin beaming from ear to ear as the puddle edged into view. “Mom, can I please do a huge jump?” I knew all to ...

On the Road to Change By Renee Saul was a man of the world.  He did not walk with God.  He did not talk to God.  Instead, he chased after God’s people, torturing whoever got in his way until one day, God spoke to him. “Saul! Why do you harass ...

You Reap What you Sow. After all, YOLO! By Renee With so many new abbreviations, text lingo, and language breakdowns these days, it took me awhile to figure out what exactly the term YOLO means.  I know I could have “Googled” it, but I wanted to get to the bottom ...