Author: Jo Ann Fore

Column Post by Lisa Easterling She told me I suck at friendship. And she meant it. While most of me had the strength to reject the indictment as mean-spirited and untrue, a poisoned barb was left behind. I’ve been prayerfully thinking about this damaging prophesy over my life. My general philosophy is to take criticism […]

Guest Post by Ricci Neer It seemed each year was more difficult than the last. She thought for sure that this would get easier. Growing up without a father didn’t seem like that big of a deal. For a little girl unaware, it just was. She can’t remember anyone asking much about her father or […]

Column Post by Laura Hyers I feel like I get my best writing material from my pastor. Kind of. I mean, he’s really smart, and funny, and he makes being the Church seem possible, and when my heart is floundering and my investment is seeming less and less worthwhile, his words remind me why I’m […]

Column Post by Lakin Easterling Everyone has much to say about forgiveness. What actually counts as forgiveness, what qualifies someone for forgiveness, how many times and how often you should bestow forgiveness (which is usually a smaller number than how many times forgiveness should be bestowed on YOU). It’s such a minefield, that one little […]

Column Post by Glenda Harbinson It was a late July evening, the house quiet as I sat texting with a friend. My husband and children were sleeping. I was loathe to leave both the calm and the friendly conversation, so it was late when I pulled myself out of my chair to get ready for […]

Guest Post by Nicole White I stumbled recently. Instead of paying attention to where I was going I was thinking of a million other things than where my feet were and stepped half off a driveway, and down I went. A single curse word escaped as I landed on hands and knees, palms scraped, one knee […]

Column Post by Lisa Easterling I created my first painting today. A friend invited my daughter and me to a painting party and it seemed like too much fun to pass up. I have a hard time doing anything for myself, especially if there’s a cost involved, but my friend talked me into coming and […]

Guest Post by Cindie Thomas Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what kind of legacy I want to leave behind for my children and grandchildren. I think of my cad who left us all a wonderful legacy by the way he lived his life. Dad worked in a cotton mill as a weaver most of […]

Column Post by Laura Hyers I am a firm believer that oldest siblings should get a life bonus for the amount of anxiety and pain we go through concerning the little ones who come after us on the family tree. I have two sisters—one who is a year and a half younger than me and […]

Column Post by Lakin Easterling “You can think up some birds, that’s what you can do. You can think about yellow, you can think about blue…” So begins my favorite Dr. Seuss book in the history of ever, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! My mother bought it for me several years ago, when I was a […]