[NOTE: To subscribe, send an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.] We love a good morality tale, don’t we? The Boy Who Cried Wolf taught us not to lie. The Little Red Riding Hood taught us to go straight home. Well, here’s a morality tale ripped straight from Michele’s Epic [...]
[NOTE: To subscribe, send an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.] Paging all MKs! You’ll find below a copy of a mass-mailing I just sent out to just about every MK I know. It’s also an “everything but the kitchen sink” look at what I’m doing and what’s ahead. (An MK [...]
[NOTE: To subscribe, send an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.] I don’t like forwards. Forwards are to me what toupees are to Donald Trump. Overrated and unnecessary. But this short video caught my eye in a way that may be surprising to you. I watched it with the sound turned [...]
[NOTE: To subscribe, send an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.] My mom and I were sitting at her dining room table yesterday, in Port Franks, Ontario (that’s Canada, for the geographically challenged), each engrossed in answering emails, when I heard a faint sound from outside the windows. A paddle-boat, I [...]
[NOTE: To subscribe, send an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.] They say some of us have the gift of compartmentalizing. In my case, it’s the gift of drawerizing. I have my life neatly divided into convenient drawers: my Ministry drawer, my Personal Growth drawer, my Spiritual drawer, my Relational drawer… [...]
[NOTE: To subscribe, send an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.] Prayer is a nebulous thing. It can be a frustrating endeavor, its effects unpredictable and often unknown. Its mystery can be discouraging when we, in direst need, enlist it to seek victory over death, which in a fallen world is [...]
[NOTE: To subscribe, send an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.] (A 4-minute video is at the bottom of this post. Please pass it on to anyone you know who is transitioning too…) It’s 7 am on my last day in Germany. I hear birds chirping outside the windows of the [...]
[NOTE: To subscribe, send an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.] Some people dream of walking across the stage of Hollywood’s Kodak Theater to receive an Oscar. Others dream of standing on an Olympic podium while their country’s flag is raised. My own ambitions might seem insignificant in contrast: I [...]
I’m in Germany, madly packing boxes for my move to the States and saying tough goodbyes. I should be hard at work or moping, but it’s Sunday and I’m taking a break! So I did some editing-therapy this afternoon that should give you something amusing to watch until I have the time to do some [...]
[NOTE: To subscribe, send an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.] “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” Helen Keller I attended Wheaton Bible Church this morning, where Dr. Andrew Schmutzer continued a series on “Present help in present trouble.” Today’s topic was [...]