The summer before I took my trip to Israel, the summer of 1999, I was involved in a community college bible study. I was part of an initial team who had started the group, and I was part of the leadership involved with planning activities, outreaches, and welcoming new people.
The group officially met on Sunday [...]

Eleven months after I had ended my six month commitment to “Not Dating”, in March of 2000, a lifelong dream of mine was fulfilled and I got to spend two weeks in Israel, walking where Jesus walked and seeing the things I had been reading about in the Bible.  The scriptures came alive before my [...]

As a very young child I grew up believing in God as the Creator of this world, but beyond that I didn’t know, or think much about Him.
My father has always been an unbelieving agnostic who becomes visibly uncomfortable at the very mention of God. My mother is a quiet Christian who took me to [...]

In High School I had a few different boyfriends. One of the relationships was short, one was even shorter, and one was quite long… in high school terms anyway. Dating and breaking up were no longer silly games. They meant more, they took more, and when they ended they hurt more.
Somewhere along the way I [...]

I got over my first Break Up in a couple of days and a relieved sense of freedom took over. I was happy to be free from my non-dating, dating relationship that I was never quite sure what to do with anyway.
My friends and I continued on in true Jr. high fashion to have all [...]

Ryan Spriggs and I dated in the sixth grade for three months, without actually dating at all. We never went anywhere together. We talked on the phone rather often, but we hardly ever talked at school, except for occasionally when we held hands while walking to P.E.
He tried to drag me under the mistletoe for a [...]

In fifth grade I was too in love with the New Kids on the Block to notice any real boys.
Joey and Jordan had my heart, my wardrobe, and my bedroom walls. I was up front and center at Dodger Stadium for one of their concerts. I even made a (now I realize monstrously, shamefully, [...]

My first crush was in Kindergarten. I liked a boy who was very mean to me.

One day he brought a toy into our Kindergarten class for “Show and Tell.” It was battery operated and it had five colored penguins on wheels that would climb stairs and when they reached the top they would rush down [...]

When I was in Jr. High, a new roller skating rink opened in our small town and it was a very big deal. We’d grown tired of bowling. We didn’t have a mini golf center. Going to the movies was okay, but you couldn’t really have a conversation with boys there or hang out and [...]

“Come on! Hurry! They stole my football.”
I was eleven years old, on a Saturday afternoon, when I showed up at Megan’s house and she was in an excited frenzy. I had just scaled the drainage ditch between our housing tracts, crossed through her back yard, and found her in the front driveway excitedly hollering at [...]