LIfestyles
Allow Parenting to Push You Toward Humility
A few years ago I decided it was finally time to introduce Adelade to Gone with the Wind, one of my favorite movies of all time. In one scene, Scarlett warns Ashley not to look back. “It drags at your heart until you can’t do anything but look back,” she tells him, through her tears. I used to feel that way about our old love notes. Looking back made me wish for those times, those feelings, it made me long for the intensity of infatuation and the constant declarations of love, of everything’s okay, of we’re going to make it. The truth is that looking back dragged at my heart and made me discontent.
Olney’s newest cosmetologist is open for business
Since high school, Irene Olney’s newest cosmetologist. Luna dreamed about becoming While she graduated a hairstylist and now from ITS Academy in early she is living that dream as March, actually receiving her license was postponed a couple months due to COVID-19. Now, having passed her exam she offers the community her skills at Capelli’s Salon.
BLESSED AND A BLESSING
“I was homeless, addicted to drugs and living on the streets when I heard about the House of Mercy. My nephew was in the same situation as I was and had come here a few months prior to when I did. After hearing from him and seeing how well he was doing, I wanted the same thing for myself. I really didn’t know what to expect, and honestly I was looking for a place that I could get clean and have a roof over my head. After getting here, I soon realized that this wasn’t a shelter, but a Christian home,” says Charlie.