Lori Florida

She was young, she was loud, and she made me sweat. This thirteen-year-old girl could get me more off my game than most. She wasn’t like the other girls in my group. Those girls nodded their heads while I talked and hid their nerves behind polite conversation. Not Britt. Every Wednesday I fought flutters in my belly as my mind settled on Britt. She had questions about everything and those questions felt like a bright spotlight on all the things I didn’t know.  Read more at The Glorious Table... Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner

 I can imagine the face of the Samaritan woman in John 4. You would expect downcast eyes but I think bold, challenging eye contact was her armor. Her face bore the hardness of one unfair day after another. There was a forced beauty about her...evidence that she was an expert at trying hard. I wish I could know her name. I would love to friend her on facebook and then meet up for coffee. She knows secrets about how Jesus wakes up a dry, numb heart. Those are secrets that all of us who mentor and reach out to lives around us need to hear. The first words out of her mouth when Jesus asked her for a drink sound like echoes of the attitudes I've encountered over the years in my small group of high school girls. For every handful of soft, eager learners I always find a girl with a heart like a rock. A girl who makes even an innocent request for a drink a challenge. I imagine the Samaritan woman pointing her finger at Jesus and spitting out the cold, hard truth of her unworthiness be...

Head over to the Project Hopeful website to see my latest guest post about our recent trip to visit the Hope+Sisterhood.  If you are looking for a great place to make Christmas or end of the year donations, there are many opportunities to give direct help to the women in the Sisterhood program. Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner

I've been home from Ethiopia for a week but there is still so much to tell about what happened there!  The internet service at our guest house was really spotty so there were two posts that we were able to put up while we were there that I was never able to link to here.  A new post will be coming soon so I wanted to make sure you caught these two before you read the next one! If you haven't already, catch up on these posts at the Project Hopful website  here  and  here , and watch for a new one coming soon!!! Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner

It's his birthday, a day when we should be together.  But instead I'm missing him while I'm off on an adventure.  I love him so much.....that he's the kind of guy to send me off to Ethiopia on his birthday is just one of the millions of reasons. Happy Birthday Scott!!  I love you!! Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner

I'm writing for Project Hopeful again today.  We've been very busy in Ethiopia meeting some incredible people!  Please join us! Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner

I'm with my sister and two new friends in Ethiopia right now blogging for Project Hopeful.  There are things happening here that you don't want to miss!  Hop on over the Project Hopeful blog and read all about it!! Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner