by Laurie Short | May 23, 2014 | battle, Blessing, change, Dreams, Editor, Faith, God, God's will, Laurie Short, Perspective, Polich family, Prayer, Serbian, Serbian Orthodox, Stories, The Lord's prayer
Permit me to indulge in a little of my faith history. I grew up in the Serbian Orthodox church, which means a rich heritage of “religious traditions” (aka big parties) that involved massive amounts of eating, drinking and kissing. The kissing included big...
by Laurie Short | Mar 27, 2014 | baby, Compassion, CS Lewis, Disappointment with God, Dreams, Faith, Finding Faith in the Dark, Gethsemane, God's will, Paul and his thorn, Perspective, Prayer, sacrifice, unanswered prayer, your life story
For half my life, I prayed for a husband and child of my own. For half my life, God gave me singleness and other people’s children to care for. I wondered if God and I spoke different languages. However looking back, those “unanswered” prayers produced some of the...
by Laurie Short | Feb 22, 2014 | Blessing, Faith, finding faith, Grace, Haiti, job loss, Missions, Perspective, poverty, thankfulness
For those who need to see the good in the bad, this story of a friend of mine is for you. It was a day that began like countless others. Julie got up, pushed her alarm button and limped to the coffeepot. As her feet slowly woke up beneath her, it struck her how much...
by Laurie Short | Dec 20, 2013 | baby, Blessing, Buck4Good, Christmas, Compassion, Faith, Fully alive, generosity, gifts, giving, God, God's will, Grace, homelessness, Jesus, Perspective, Seeing, Stories
Have you ever given a gift that you didn’t intend to give? I was leaving my staff Christmas breakfast, and I had pulled out a couple bucks to tip the valet when two of my co-workers whispered “You gotta do $5 for this hotel.” My penny-pinching default...
by Laurie Short | Nov 11, 2013 | battle, cancer, facebook, Faith, family, fighting cancer, Fully alive, God, God's will, heroism, Jesus, Ovarian cancer, Perspective, Prayer, Uncategorized
Last week, I experienced a holy moment. I went to pray with my friend Kim who (barring a miracle) is living the last days of her life. Kim has been fighting Stage IV Ovarian Cancer, and after twenty four brutal rounds of chemotherapy, endless nights of vomiting and...
by Laurie Short | Oct 28, 2013 | being perfect, facebook, family, fantasy, Fun, high school, images, likes, mike yaconelli, myth, peer pressure, Perspective, posts, projecting an image, re-tweets, reality, social media, Stories, truth, tweets, twitter, Uncategorized
It’s an interesting culture we live in. With the rapid rise of social media, many of us now spend more time documenting our lives than we do living them. Don’t get me wrong- I love seeing what people are up to, as well as posting great life moments for others to...