by Laura Sandretti | Aug 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Last spring my son came home from school with some trinkets from an exchange student who shadowed Casey for the day. Casey told me about the boy then said we should host a foreign exchange student. Although I thought Casey was just bidding for that brother he’s always...
by Laura Sandretti | Aug 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
The other day I ran into a longtime friend and I asked her for some parenting advice. I asked Kathy how to try to encourage my teens to make Jesus a priority. Even though I was sneaking out of the house, having, hosting and attending underage drinking parties and...
by Laura Sandretti | Jul 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I desperately and with complete faith He’d come through, asked God for help. When I read, “Be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” in Thessalonians, I was convicted. I’ve been so...
by Laura Sandretti | Jun 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
Perhaps it’s a mid-life crisis or the Dennis Rodman in me that wants to be as bad as I want to be, but I was seriously considering getting a tattoo on my hand for my…ahem, 46th birthday. Why would I want to draw attention to a place that dons an impressive collection...
by Laura Sandretti | Jun 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
When I first heard about the shooting in Orlando, I was all the things I always am when there is a shooting in a theater, school or at a holiday party. I was afraid, angry, saddened and I was a mom.Before I had kids I remember my boss crying at work one day because a...
by Laura Sandretti | Jun 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
A good friend of mine who has an incredibly strong faith and who always challenges, educates and leaves me wondering something deeper about myself and my faith recently told me she could never go to seminary like me. She told me that if she would’ve she would have...
