Never ask God to humble you. I can’t clearly remember why, but for some reason I was feeling like a hot shot at work. I must have gotten a lot of guest compliments, or maybe I scored high on some Secret Shopper reports. All I know is, I was so prideful that I got convicted…
40:40 Day 23
One perk of moving to Richmond was that my job had a branch twenty minutes away from my new home. One downside was that three people I really did not want to work with again had transferred down a year ago to open the store. One manager was the most nit-picky, arrogant and condescending person I’d ever met,…
40:40 Day 22
The night we prayed over a one-armed woman in MCV’s emergency room started innocently enough. Julia and I were leading Tuesday night Bible study at my first floor duplex on Idlewood. Every week we’d have between six to twelve women (mostly college age) packed in my cheery yellow living room to share food, laughs, and…
40:40 Day 21
Have you ever been in love with an alcoholic? I don’t recommend it. I met Rick when I was twenty, and we were engaged and living together within a month. He was twenty-four and charming and cute and so much fun. And he really liked to party. Like, all the time. I quickly realized that…
40:40 Day 20
My first car was a 1998 Dodge Neon, and it was a piece of crap. My head gasket (whatever that is) flooded not once but twice, causing my engine to shut off on a ramp to the highway with a huge semi-truck behind me. Thank God I was able to pull off to the side…
40:40 Day 19
Moving stinks. Weeks of packing, cancelling utilities, cleaning..it’s one chore after another! I’d done most of what I needed to do, but had procrastinated on letting my old roommate know we were moving. We rented the stacked washer and dryer that she’d brought with her when we’d first moved in, and she could be slightly…
40:40 Day 18
Things had gotten rough at home. The one roommate I had left broke our front window while I was in Portugal and said it was a break in, leaving the house an hour later with a gaping, jagged hole. My friend Richie went over at three a.m. to make sure Bentley was ok and found…
40:40 Day 17
I lost a baby when I was just twenty-three years old. I didn’t even know I was pregnant until I miscarried. At the hospital they confirmed what was happening, and then once everything seemed okay they sent me home. My boyfriend at the time was less than supportive, and as time went on I cried…
40:40 Day 16
I love Haiti. Hands down, it was the best “vacation” ever, and I would love to return someday. I also love missionary stories, so when I came across “Miracle on Voodoo Mountain” on Christian Audio, I knew I’d enjoy hearing the story of Megan Boudreaux, a twenty four year old who responded in obedience to…
40:40 Day 15
Pampered Chef Parties made me nervous. Mostly because I was the one selling it. I’d cook in front of groups of women twice my age who had been using Pampered Chef since I was in elementary school and try to act like I knew what I was doing. I did love the products, but apart…
