Enjoy this video trailer for Ed Welch’s newest book, Shame Interrupted — How God Lifts the  Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection: And then order a copy today!  

How fun is THIS? The women of San Gabriel Union Church are flooding my real-snail-mail-mailbox with sweet FROGGY get well notes and thank you’s for the world’s CROAKIEST speaker: They are SO gracious and SO fun too! Thanks, ladies. I’m also chuckling at my super adorable girls who like to make up funny movements to kids songs. This morning it was, “Allelu Allelu Allelu Alleluia! Praise Ye the Lord!”   Hope your week is off to a great start too! Love and blessings, Tara B.  

It’s tweets like this that make me glad I’m on Twitter: “The acid test of where your  heart is: where does it go when you are alone? Your religion is revealed in solitude.” Tim Keller  

Even with its facelift, poor ol’ Terminal E in Salt Lake City continues to be one of the least pleasant airport terminals in the USA. Maybe it’s the constant, blaring announcements for flights that are boarding. (All of the planes are the size of tissue boxes, so they’re coming and going literally every few minutes.) Maybe it’s the fact that all of the rows of chairs are crammed together in way too close of proximity to each other. (Again, high volume/high turnover dictates the need.) Or MAYBE it’s the strategically-located, gigantic SMOKER’S ROOM right in the middle of everything. Total Cheech and Chong. Well. Sans the Mary Jane, I assume.…

Hey! Look! The world’s cutest webmaster (Fred Barthel) just became the world’s cutest video-maker-guy too! (Well, Rachelle might challenge me a bit on that because of our dear Living the Gospel in Relationships video creator, Joe Adams. So let’s call it a draw! 🙂 ) But here is the video Fred just made for this year’s Peacemaker Conference: I can’t wait to be there in September and hope to see you too! Happy Friday from beautiful Mandalay Bay in Oxnard, California:   Your friend, Tara B.