A quick and handy guide to get your lists and life under the control of a life-settling Savior!
I have no idea why I feel this way. Good grief! I need to simmer down! Why in the world do I feel anxious? I feel anxious because I’m human. Most of us are anxious at one time or another. We’re bombarded with negative messages and social pressure - who wouldn’t feel anxious from time … Continue reading Monday Moods: Be Anxious for Nothing
The tension was on. Results were critical. The decorated shoebox was in place, corner-squared on my desktop. Its slotted lid was a gaping mouth- begging, begging for food. I was in the sixth grade, Valentine’s Day, 1968. I’d separated six sheets of Valentines, carefully scoring each punctured piece to pull out the cards: an elephant … Continue reading The Love Note
This Type A Lady just wants to reach out and hug you all today. I want to bear-hug the pain away. Here is my solution: Seven verses to comfort. Memorize them each day and cling to them forever. Love, The Type A Lady Life Lists: Seven Days of Comfort 1. You will keep in perfect peace … Continue reading Comfort – for each day of the week
I’m going to get serious about my sloppy love life today. I’m talking about loving when life gets tough. Here’s my Serious Sloppy Love List. What is love? —Love is digging deep when you’ve been hit hard. This was an annual check up. No big deal. Let’s get it over with. —Love is the … Continue reading My Serious Sloppy Love List
Give me a break. Yech! The pressure is on. Valentine’s Day is coming. The reason I know is I listened to “Love Boat - The Valentine Special”. This cutie love drove me crazy. -Good thing I had dishes to wash. I wiped the counter watching a Hallmark “Month of Love” movie. Burning questions overtook me … Continue reading My Sloppy Love Life
I’m pretty good at covering up. You wouldn’t know to look at me, but sometimes. I’m an Undercover Christian. Oh, sure. I’m good at churchy stuff and Christian bloggy stuff and singin for Jesus stuff, but, in certain places, my faith goes undercover. Take, for example, a teeth-gritting, jaw-setting, in-your-face interaction with my hubby today. … Continue reading Friday Fun: Undercover Christian or Laurie the Spy
Laurie’s Beauty Tips (Haha!) I slept on my face again, smashed into the pillow. I went to bed in the mandatory beauty sleeping position: on my back. My face was slathered with a night cream which promised to dissolve pesky wrinkles. By morning, I was scrunched into my pillow case which absorbed the cream and … Continue reading Laurie’s Beauty Tips (haha!)
A Big Shout Out to Moms! Hey, Moms! Thank you for hanging in there! Please remember that every mundane task, every irritating interruption, every chaotic crisis is a high and holy calling! You may not feel angelic as you wipe up another spill, wait up another night, put up with another complaint, and hold up … Continue reading Laurie’s big shout-out to moms!
Confessions of a Type A Woman 