"Be sure you make it back for the sunset," she encouraged me. "You can watch it from the balcony right outside your room." Rhonda had invited me to be her guest at her favorite Bed & Breakfast in Fairhope, AL. She suggested I visit a couple of local places...
Sometimes I get caught up in awe of my God who knows me and loves me. Waterfront Property Waterfront sites are prime real estate at the Wichita Falls RV Park. I’m pretty new here and I come and go. So I take what I can get. That’s why when I came back from my latest...
I share this story with fear and trembling. It could cause my friends and family to stage an intervention to determine if I should be allowed out in the world by myself. Loyal readers could decide I'm not smart enough to follow. But I'm going to write it and share it,...
It is a truth universally accepted (in my small universe) that I have a lot of words. I've come a long way from the ninth-grade Intro to Speech student who struggled to find three minutes worth of verbiage for a presentation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I...
I remember the first time I saw my mom as a person with hopes and longings of her own. I didn't care for it. Not one little bit. I was probably about eleven or twelve years old. I remember being at a round table at a reception-type event with Mom and some of her...
I cried some this week. I let go of some plans, some dreams, and some stuff I'd imagined a certain way. And on top of all that, I lost another piece of my mom. The Slow Fade of Dementia My mom has dementia. I'm losing her a few bits at a time. This week, she forgot...
Hosting your family's holidays this year? Feeling anxious? Maybe it's about finally nailing your mom's giblet gravy or pies with no soggy bottoms. Before I was the mom, I thought that's what moms worried about. But, although I've heard many prayer requests for family...
"You should go back," she said. She had no idea what she was asking me to do. She wasn't telling me I should go see a beautiful mountain waterfall or drive a few miles out of my way to see a collection of Cadillacs stuck into the ground. She was telling me to go...
We had a rock tumbler when I was growing up. For a while, all the stones we picked up on our travels went straight into the tumbler as soon as we got home. They'd tumble around for a few days—and when the noise stopped, that meant it was time to take the rocks out,...
‘ve experienced judgment, malicious gossip, and having my confession brought up later and used as a weapon against me. I’ve also experienced forgiveness, a clean heart, and freedom. I understand the fear of being seen. But I will forever choose the freedom of being known.
Ride along with Christi and share her God moments, conversations with strangers and friends, and the struggles and blessings of living on the road. You’ll see God at work, be strengthened by Scripture, and encouraged to join in as a travel companion with your comments and concerns. The Come Alongside Blog (CAB) is the heartbeat of Come Alongside Ministries (CAM)—where you experience the thump-thump-thump of life along the way.