01 Dec It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Advent is upon us. It seemed to sneak up on me this year. Since Christmas falls on a Sunday, the first Sunday of Advent was as far from Christmas as...
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25 Nov Grateful
Time for my second attempt at Five Minute Friday. Five minutes of writing, no editing, just hit that publish button! And the prompt is "Grateful." Didn't I already cover this?...
23 Nov Not just another post on Thankfulness
Well, maybe it is. Everybody's posting on how grateful they are for this and that, but I just had to jump on the bandwagon. I am up to my elbows...
18 Nov Grow: My first attempt at participating in Five Minute Friday!
It's unprecedented! A post two days in a row on Joy in the Journey? That never happens. Well, it's happening today. I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was...
17 Nov It’s Shoebox Time!
In true Alison form, I am waiting till the last minute to pack our shoeboxes for OCC. That's OCC, not OCD. Operation Christmas Child, a ministry of Samaritan's Purse.This is...
09 Nov Sweet Surrender
Lately God’s been asking me to surrender. Last week, in Sunday School, our young adults pastor (and yes, I still qualify as a young adult!) made a comment about surrender....
02 Nov Becoming Relevant
Last Friday I “almost” started a new thing called Five Minute Friday. I’d seen a few of these on other blogs. The blogger writes for five minutes straight on a...
26 Oct Has it really come to this? Thoughts on being a writer in the Internet age.
I’ve been having a bit of writer’s block lately. Well, not exactly writer’s block. Just blogger’s block, I guess. I’ve written a poem, but it’s nothing I want to share...
21 Oct Birthday Boy
The birthday was last week, but I've been working on other projects so . . . here are pics of my favorite two-year-old at long last! The photos should speak for...
05 Oct In the past twenty days . . .
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I haven't done much for flood victims. Helping out with the "flood buckets" my church is providing via the Red Cross has been the extent of my mission. The initial...