The Beautiful Thrifty Life

T he view of a West Virginia sunset  from my parents' back deck on Thanksgiving. "We are not human beings having a spiritual experi...

Notice, there is no handle on the outside of the door.. . Over the last few weeks I have written about how we seem to have lost Christ in o...

Photo from Reflections of Christ by Mark Mabr y Over two thousand years ago, a child was born in a humble stable in Bethlehem, born to live...

The Nativity from Reflections of Christ by Mark Mabry During my long post-Thanksgiving drive last weekend, I was listening to the radio an...

I had a feeling when I took this picture that it would end up on a Spiritual Sundays post... ;-) I am a member of the Church of Jesus Chris...

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , aka a "Mormon" , and on the first Sunday of every month we pra...

I love long drives. Okay, so not all long drives (more than about 2 hours each way and I start to get a little testy), but on Friday I drov...

This may sound familiar if you read my Spiritual Sundays post a few weeks ago, entitled "Preparing and Protecting Our Children." ...

This morning we were on our way to church, and my son said something interesting- he said, "Look Mommy, some people aren't going t...

"The righteous woman's strength and influence today can be tenfold what it might be in more tranquil times. She has been placed he...

A woman in tears as she surveys the damage left by Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas. I wrote recently on the topic of giving (see Give A ...

Okay, so that's a weird title for this post, but it's the title of a song (and an album) by Pink Martini, one of my favorite bands,...