Rewarding myself with a quick look at my top five favorite blogs while I ate lunch, I couldn’t move past Urban Servant’s  post today without clicking through, crying, praying, and financially supporting Sarah’s Covenant Homes. Please consider doing the same. You’ll never regret it.  

I had an early morning doctor appointment and driving home with all of the windows down, I thought too myself: “This is just TOO beautiful a day to stay inside!” So our school morning quickly became a park morning—and we just happened to bump into friends who were thinking the same thing too:   Mmmmmmm! Hope your Monday is going well too. Yours, Tara B.  

Now that my time serving in Ohio has come to a close (missing you already, Ohio women!), my heart is excited (and a little nervous!) that AmazingGrace360 week is upon us. If you will be with us in Atlanta, or if you’d like to participate in real time at a distance, I’ll be LiveBlogging all of the general sessions here: PCA LiveBlogs And I’ll be tweeting from the conference at #ag360: AmazingGrace360 Twitterings Hope to see you in Atlanta or on the LiveBlog!   Gratefully, Tara B. PS I would be ever so grateful if you might please keep everyone serving (and being served!) at AmazingGrace360 in your prayers this…

“Are you a distressed believer? Is your heart pressed down with sickness, tried with disappointments, overburdened with cares? To you I say this day, ‘Behold the cross of Christ.’ Think whose hand it is that chastens you; think whose hand is measuring to you the cup of bitterness which you are now drinking. It is the hand of Him who was crucified! It is the same hand which, in love to your soul, was nailed to the accursed tree. Surely that thought should comfort and hearten you.  Surely you should say to yourself, ‘A crucified Savior will never lay upon me anything that is not for my good. It must…