by Laurie Short | Aug 7, 2013 | Author, Blessing, Dreams, Faith, Grace, Jesus, Parenting, Royal, Stories, Uncategorized
On my last blog, I wrote about the Royal Baby. I talked about the difference a birth canal can make in determining your life. However that’s only part of the story. Certainly, there are circumstances in our lives that we don’t choose or control. The birth canal you...
by Laurie Short | Jul 24, 2013 | Blessing, Compassion, Faith, Grace, Parenting, Prayer, Royal, Stories, World Vision
Unless you’ve been on a media fast, you’ve undoubtedly heard by now that the royal baby was born this week. On Monday, there were two million tweets on him, and he hadn’t even been given a name. Now that his moniker has been revealed, you can bet George Alexander...
by Laurie Short | Jul 15, 2013 | Blessing, Faith, Fun, Stories
Ahhh… vacation. It’s summer and everybody’s doing it. Given my current love relationship with the airlines (see former blog), we decided this year to do the infamous road trip vacation. It was beautiful… Portland, Seattle, Tahoe, San Francisco… with brief stops in...
by Laurie Short | Jun 27, 2013 | Author, Blessing, Dreams, Faith, Grace, Parenting
So I just finished my first real book. Not that the fourteen before were not real, but they were “How to” youth ministry books. Fun ideas, tricks of the trade. How to be a good small group leader. This one was about faith and life. And it took eight months, seventeen...
by Laurie Short | Jun 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Can we talk? I feel like I’m in a bad marriage with United Airlines. I’ve been with them for 25 years, flown 1,245,000 miles, and most of the time it feels like they don’t know I’m alive. In our first years together, they treated me like a queen. On my flight coming...