I know a lot of you prayed for my cousin Lauren and her family when her 3-year old son, Corey, passed away last year.   I wanted to share with you a picture of her sweet twins, Courtney and Jordan, that I had the priviledge of meeting this past weekend:

On my mind again today: how crazy it [...]

Sad news: my cousin Lauren’s 3-year-old son, Corey Cline passed away over the weekend after a freak accident. He was coming home from church with his 7-year-old-brother and older cousin, and their car went off the road and rolled over.  Everyone made it out okay, but while they were waiting for help, another car lost control [...]

((taken on an unusually warm day the other week, after the snow had melted.))
We’re on to month two of 2009, and I am still feeling good about this year.  I hope saying that doesn’t jinx me, but I really feel hopeful about what’s to come.  Like we are (or maybe I am) am on the brink of something [...]

So far, 2009 has not been how I expected.  I don’t mean that in a bad way.  I actually think it’s a positive thing, but it’s been pretty challenging.   
I tend to avoid change and I prefer when things are predictable.  I always have a “plan” for how things should go. And right now I [...]

You know, I think this has been the best Thanksgiving in recent memory.  We had a Thanksgiving on Thursday with my family in Massillon, and on Saturday we had Thanksgiving with Funnel’s side, including relatives from Florida and Michigan.  I had such a fun time and it was much-needed – four days in a row [...]

It seems that night time is a hard time for a lot of people. During the day, I am so busy and there’s so many things to get done that I don’t have time to worry or stress about stuff. It’s when the lights are out, my body is still, and my world is quiet [...]

 
((Maria and Stevie Chapman))
I was really saddened this past week after I read about the death of Steven Curtis Chapman’s daughter, Maria, the youngest of the three little girls they adopted from China.  I think I read that she was five years old.  She died in a freak accident in their driveway — her older brother was [...]

Most of the time, it’s difficult for me to post anything very personal on here because I don’t know who all reads my blog and it makes me feel really vulnerable. But without going into detail and assuming it is mostly people who care about me, I want to ask if you guys could please [...]

I don’t really write about my faith very much on here because I know it can be a real turn-off to people. Not too long ago I wouldn’t have bothered to read a blog entry about Jesus, or if someone was talking to me about Him, I would probably have tuned them out. Even if [...]

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulders. And his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
— Isaiah 9:6
Love,
jen&funnel