by Laurie Short | Sep 18, 2013 | Author, Blessing, change, Charlie Brown, Faith, Fully alive, God, Grace, Listening, Perspective, Seeing, Tyranny of the Urgent, Uncategorized
**this blog was written four years ago and inspired the title of my new book. The book is now out, and here is the link: http://amzn.to/2wccPvf Have you ever felt like you were going through your days like Charlie Brown’s teacher? You know, the one you never get to...
by Laurie Short | Sep 2, 2013 | Author, Grace, Miley Cyrus, Ministry, Parenting, Prayer, sex, Stories, Tim Tebow, Uncategorized, youth ministry, Youth Worker
You probably never thought you’d see Miley Cyrus and Tim Tebow in the same sentence. But last week, both of them were in the news. For different reasons. Tim Tebow was cut from the New England Patriots. It’s not the first time this has happened. He’s had so many ups...
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 | 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...
by Laurie Short | May 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
From Moses’ perspective, the directions were crystal clear. The promised land was theirs; they just needed a strategy for claiming it. Since there were twelve tribes of Israel, they would send one man from each tribe. Twelve “spies” who would scout...
by Laurie Short | May 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
I have come to believe our greatest blessings come wrapped with our biggest challenges. And God is in it all. For me that blessing is being a mom. The challenge is there’s a word “step” before mom. Although you probably wouldn’t know it if you...