Seeing Life From the Highest Vantage Point
By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford When asked why they didn’t do more reading, a group of teens unabashedly gave two reasons: the television and the computer. Both become addictive. Both become a substitute for relation within a family. Neither is totally negative. In fact, our technology is amazing. But technology is not in charge of… read more »
By Bria Crawford My dear friend Olivia wrote this based on Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’. If you can never marry, see all your dreams rearranged, and still remain pure, If you can plan and plot and it all be overturned at a moments notice, and still submit joyfully If you can slave over a dinner… read more »
Tilapia Tortillas! by Bria Crawford I created this recipe when I was desperate, and it has become my favorite. It is my new “I need supper quick” meal. I fed ten people for $7.00 with seven pieces of fish plus all the other ingredients. Ingredients: bag of Tilapia- according to how big your family is,… read more »
By Bria Crawford “And be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2 Against the flow. We’ve all heard it. But have we taken to heart what not conforming to the… read more »
By Contributing Writer Bria Crawford Friendship. Do we really consider what that word means? Or what it should mean? Friendship is such a gift from God! Too often we take friendships for granted or fail to take the time to become the kind of friend we really desire to have ourselves. Some might ask, and… read more »
Mallie and Kyla As the storm raged, I could hear my siblings crying out for mom and me. I was broken-hearted. I couldn’t get to them. I couldn’t hold them or tell them that God would see us through. I couldn’t dry their tears and rock them. I just sat helplessly, shaking and praying that… read more »
“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38, 39 My grandparents… read more »
Beauty for Ashes As the early morning sun caressed the foothills of the Appalachian mountains that Thursday, it revealed utter devastation as far as I could see. The trees that once casted shadows lay piled in a heap, roots jutted into the air. Instead of birds and critters stirring in the full green boughs, there was… read more »
