by Charity Singleton Craig | Oct 5, 2016 | Blog, My Word of the Week
On Sunday during the Bible study I lead at church, we were talking about grace. First, we defined grace in our own words, and most of us came up with some version of “a gift from God we don’t deserve.” When I asked the group why people have a hard time receiving grace, we all agreed that generally people are suspicious of free gifts and would rather just know what they owed so they could pay back their debt.
by Charity Singleton Craig | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog
A few weeks ago when I wrote about boxes and my plan to experiment with the size and shape of my life and work in the new year, I had no idea that my husband would injure his knee playing basketball with the boys a few days after Christmas. I didn’t know that we would come home from an extremely relaxing anniversary trip …
by Charity Singleton Craig | Dec 15, 2015 | Blog, My Word of the Week
I’m starting to get excited for Christmas.
It might have something to do with the fact that our shopping is finished and our Christmas cards are addressed and sealed and the holiday to-do list has started to shrink instead of grow.
by Charity Singleton Craig | May 20, 2014 | Blog, My Word of the Week
ex·pec·ta·tion – noun \ ek-ˌspek-ˈtā-shən, ik- \ : a belief that something will happen or is likely to happen : a feeling or belief about how successful, good, etc., someone or something will be Last week, I flew to Dallas on a direct flight, and after that...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Dec 5, 2011 | Archived Blog Posts
At holiday parties over the weekend, I saw some friends I hadn’t seen in a while. Even as we were catching up, talking about work and family and church activities, I knew the dreaded question would come. It’s always well-meaning, and it always makes me...