After growing up in a small town with deep family roots, then spending much of her adult life in larger cities many miles away from that hometown and family; the author and her family relocated back “home” in 2007. Adjustments were made as they found themselves relearning small town life where everyone knows you and most of your business. They built their dream home while their only child was getting ready to leave the nest. The nest will be empty before it is built. As the author and her family navigated these life-changing and milestone events, she recorded this transition by blogging from 2007-2011. Sometimes difficult. Sometimes humorous. Always an adventure. This book includes those blogs along with present day commentary by the author as she looks back on those times. Come peek into her rearview mirror as she looks ahead through the windshield.

A scriptural, common-sense approach that encourages Christians to let go of their hurts and regrets and move forward into the life God intended them to have.

A moving testimony to how a church can experience rebirth by discerning it core mission. The key to becoming a Spirit-energized, people-loving, life-giving, community-transforming congregation, says James A. Harnish, is really very simple. All you have to do is be willing to die. This ebook describes how God calls each congregation to a specific mission, how God grants discernment to understand what that mission is, and how God enables the congregation to die to its entrenched attitudes and behaviors in order to be resurrected to a new life of ministry and witness.