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Sarah Palin: Can I get a "Wow!"?Yesterday

This is not intended to be a political post and had Sarah Palin been an Olympic athlete or school teacher from Dimebox, Texas, this "hockey mom" would get my recognition and applause.

From her bio on Wikipedia:

Family and personal background

Sarah Louise Heath Palin (IPA: /peɪlɪn/) (born February 11, 1964) is the Governor of Alaska, and the 2008 Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States.[1] She will be the first female Vice Presidential candidate representing the Republican Party and the second female Vice Presidential candidate representing a major political party.

Palin was born in Sandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of Charles and Sally (Sheeran) Heath.[3] Her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant.[4] Charles Heath was a popular science teacher and coached track.[4] The Heaths were avid outdoors enthusiasts; Sarah and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school, and the family would regularly run 5k and 10k races.[4]

Palin was the point guard and captain for the Wasilla High School Warriors, in Wasilla, Alaska,

Warrior or wimp—How not to raise a mama’s boyAugust 28

Yesterday, I stumbled upon this wonderful article (click here to read it) on Reuters.com. It is entitled, "Parents start urging kids to live on the wild side." Needless to say, I found myself shouting "Amen!" more than once while reading it. It reminded me of a chapter in my book for mothers of sons, "Your Boy: Raising a Godly Son in an Ungodly World." The chapter addresses the challenge moms face (myself included) in finding the tricky balance of protecting our sons without stifling their manhood. In the chapter, I reflect on my boys' desire one summer to camp out in a tent pitched in our backyard. For weeks. With no fence behind our house and a wide open greenbelt of woods. Woods, mind you, with lions, and t

What if every Christian watched this music video?August 25

I had to watch this twice to get the full impact of the message. I didn't realize until the second viewing (little slow, here), that it was depicting a possible scenario of a chain of events that could result from a single sinful choice and the impact on an entire family.

Art can be so powerful and this piece eloquently packs a thousand sermons into a short five minutes. I'm headed to the kitchen to get a glass of water to quell the lump in my throat. Wow! What a powerful piece!

If you feel so led, please share which line (or lines) in the song you found to be especially powerful. Let's just have ourselves a little group Bible study, shall we? For me, it was this line: "Be careful little feet where you go, because it's the little feet behind you that are sure to follow." Okay, and one more: "People never crumble in a day." Tis true, tis true. I'm bettin' we all have a story related to that line...

Living Proof weekend recap!August 25

Me with "the mama's" (aka: Sophie and Melanie). Love these gals! And that Gulley (not pictured) is a cutie, too!


Fellow LifeWay authors, (Margaret Kennedy, Simone Monroe, and Pat Layton). Love 'em! (Note to self: New Banana Republic top looks like maternity blouse! Mercy!)


I showed up to my reserved seat to see that my mentor, Ada, was two seats down from me! (She is worthy of an entire blog post to come...)

Suddenly, 840 miles doesn't seem quite so far...August 25

You gotta love video iChat. At one point, we had a 3-way screen going and Ryan was on too. It was a regular family affair or at least, a virtual one. Of course, the kids requested to see Scout, so I went downstairs to get the critter for a brief cameo appearance. The highlight seemed to be when he yawned straight at the camera and both kids let out an "awwwwwwwwe" in unison. Lexie has a proven track record of growling at the screen, so we spared her the trauma this go 'round. We poked fun at Paige for wearing her hoodie and her dad asked her if she had gone Goth since leaving home. Hoodie or not, it was sure good to see her face and hear her voice...all at the same time. Ryan had to sign off early because he was in the middle of a very important virtual golf game. Aw, the joys of college...