Please take a few moments to read Pastor John Piper’s journal entry from this week: Hello, My Father Just Died (He wrote it from Greenville, SC–the very city where I just was serving and taping the dvd series. I found out because one of my friends there has a child whose teacher is a relative of the Piper family.) And please do keep this precious family in your prayers.   Thanks, all! Love, t  

Hey Pennsylvania! I did your DRAWING for the $99 Peacemaker Group Study and S.G. won! Hooray! 🙂 !! I hope that we continue to hear from ladies in South Carolina! I’ll do their drawing next Monday morning–so be sure to join our discussion board and email me by then if you’d like to be included. I’m ALMOST home right now. One more flight. I’m actually sitting in COLORADO because my second of three flights was canceled and I was re-routed on a different airline through different cities. Ahhhhh–air travel. Hope you’re all doing well!  Oh–and THANK YOU for the encouraging blog comments you’ve posted in the past few days. They…

Many thanks to all of you who have called and emailed to let me know you are praying for me as I film this dvd series. I am SOOOOOOOOOOO grateful!! Day one of filming (yesterday) was LONG and HARD … but the feedback was that I did OK on four of the five sessions. Guess which one I did NOT teach very well?!?! The introduction to the Peacemaker Ministries material! (I.e., the material I know BEST.) Isn’t that just strange???? Maybe I was presuming it would go OK and didn’t try as hard? (I don’t think so–but maybe????) Maybe it was a combination of the last session of the day,…

A happy & grateful HELLO to all of the ladies I met in South Carolina this past weekend! It was so wonderful to share fellowship with you. Thanks again for inviting me to be with you all. Also: I truly hope that you will consider joining our discussion board in the next WEEK (and dropping me a quick email to let me know!) so that I can enter your name in our drawing for a $99 Peacemaker Group Study. (Remember! I will never give your contact information to anyone.) Also, if ANYONE is willing to review my book on Amazon, I’d love to send you a THANK YOU. Please just…

Wow! I’m having SUCH a wonderful time in South Carolina … Not just getting to serve and teach, etc. BUT … I’ve had a makeover too! 🙂 These pictures don’t do the color justice at all … But here I am with short hair:   Fun fun! Hope you enjoy– (& hope Soph doesn’t miss playing with my long hair too much 🙂 ) Love & g’nite, t  

Sometimes people ask me why (when I have events back-to-back) I come home “only for two days.” A picture is worth a 1,000 words, right? 🙂 Happy Tuesday, all! Love, Tara B.   (And I can’t even take pictures of my ALL-TIME-FAVORITE cuddle times in the morning and at bed and reading books during the day! Grace abounds. Truly abounds.)  

Just a note to congratulate R.C. from VA for winning the $99 Peacemaker Group Study for joining our discussion board and emailing me. And also to let R.C. AND the two reviewers who reviewed my book on Amazon know that their goodies are en route. Don’t forget! The next EIGHT women who review my book on Amazon can have a prize too! Fun fun. I love giving away free / good / biblical stuff. Happy Wednesday, all!   Yours, Tara B.