Non-chocolate temptations

I wrote this for the Adult Discipleship newsletter at my church; thought I’d share it here as another insight into the adventure I’ve been having the past few months. Here we go… When we hear the word “temptation” these days, it’s typically preceded by the word “chocolate.” The word has lost most of its cautionary status. But it’s dangerous to think that temptations to veer off God’s path for us, even slightly, aren’t very real…

Continue reading

Strong enough to stay single?

Internet dating is not for the faint of heart. I’ve been fighting the Internet dating wars for a decade now, and while I don’t consider myself one of the walking wounded, I’ve certainly got some stories to tell. And when I tell them, my sweet friend Emily often says, “Sprague, you’re the bravest woman I know.” I don’t know about that. All I know is that I keep going back into battle. I’m in the…

Continue reading

Big news. Big. Like, huge.

(And now that I’ve typed that headline, I feel like I’ve oversold things. An inauspicious beginning, to be sure. But, here goes…) As some, but not many, people know, the last few months have been a bit of a roller coaster for me. I had an awesome job, which unfortunately got not-so-awesome for me around Christmas, and I decided (after lots of prayer and discernment) to leave it at the beginning of February. I’ve had…

Continue reading

Not gonna listen…

I’m working on a new venture, one that has me scared and excited and (mostly) scared. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, and this afternoon I made a very important decision about this effort. I’m telling the voice in my head to kiss off. You know that voice – the one that says you’ll never succeed, that the odds are against you, that you don’t know what you’re doing, that you don’t have what…

Continue reading

Blast from the past

I’m hanging out in one of my favorite coffee shops this afternoon, having just finished a conversation with a good friend, and I pulled out my laptop to get my blog on for a bit. I’m typing away on a big announcement (which has been preempted by the next part of this story) when I look up to see the couple who has walked in the door. And see the man I broke up with…

Continue reading