It’s easy to make mistakes when you start blogging. I’ve made plenty myself. Thankfully, none of them were fatal. (michaelhyatt.com)

Do you struggle with serious doubts about your ability to blog on a regular basis. I do. But I’ve decided to dive in once again.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’ (Billy Graham)

The past few days, I can’t control my emotions. I’ve lost sleep several nights in a row. And when I’m exhausted, I tend to be impatient and angry all the time.

Afterward, I regret how I take my feelings out on other people. Then, I begin a pattern of self-deprecating thoughts, “How could anyone who treats others the way I do ever encourage another person in their faith?”

Trying to climb up the social media ladder? Hope to see you at the 2013 Arkansas Writers’ Conference, May 31 – June 1, at the Holiday Inn Presidential, 600 Interstate 30, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Social Media Panel Discussion. Be sure to check out the social media panel discussion, “Making Social Media Work for You,” that Linda Black and I will lead on Sat., June 1, at 1:45 PM at the 2013 Arkansas Writers’ Conference.

“… I don’t know what you’re talking about …” (Matt. 26:70).

Denial. Betrayal. Nothing hurts quite like the betrayal of someone you love and trust?

But what if you were the one who had betrayed your closest friend? You turned your back on him in his darkest hour of need.

Jesus had a friend like that–Peter.

When you have a flat tire, you must stop long enough to change it. (Dan Jordan)

Remember my earlier post about dealing with the flat tires in life? Well, here we go again …

Website and blog. This time, I’ve decided to fix a few online flat tires. I’ve tried to avoid the problems, as you may have noticed with my random blog posts in the past few weeks. So, I decided to make it official and force myself into some self-induced accountability.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:3-8 NIV)

Do you remember your first love? When I married my husband Dan, I usually overlooked his faults, simply because I wanted to be with him. Later, when I became focused on being a wife and a mother, I lost sight of why I married him in the first place.

I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong … Oh, what a miserable person I am! (Rom. 7:21-24 NLT)

As the sun set on my 2012 “to do” list, I noticed an interesting fact — I finished  most of my writing projects, except some of the “stories that mattered most.”