What He Asks of Us
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son..."~ John 3:16 It's the most memorized verse of the Bible. One we know so well and see so often that we probably don't really pause to think about it anymore. But the other week in church, it was one of the verses our speaker...
Word of the Week – Travesty
Thanks to how similar travesty sounds to tragedy, I think I was always laboring under some false ideas about this one...especially because it often is a tragedy when something is also a travesty. Travesty, however, comes from the Latin and Italian words that mean "to disguise." It's from trans...
Twenty Years and Twenty Things
Today's my 20th wedding anniversary, so I thought I'd steal a page from my new birthday tradition and enumerate Twenty Things...things I've learned through marriage, things I've loved, things that I take joy in remembering, things that have helped make me who I am. Hope you enjoy the list. 😉 1....
Word of the Week – Patience and Passion
I've shared before about the real meaning of passion and how its word actually means "suffering"--so the things we're passionate about are the things we're willing to suffer for. Well in a church conversation recently, my husband wondered aloud whether patience--which also means "enduring...
The Purpose of Passion: A Million Little Fires
The Purpose of Passion A Million Little Fires There's something in this world that you're passionate about, something that really stirs you to action. A cause you want to advocate for, that you're willing to suffer for. Maybe it's racial reconciliation. Or the rights of people with disabilities....
Word of the Week – Habit, Habitat, Inhabit
A while back, my husband and I were wondering how habit and habitat were related. Clearly they share a root, but what's the common idea between them? Well, we were wondering it at bedtime, so I didn't immediately go and look it up, but eventually I remembered to. 😉 They are indeed both from the...
Warriors of Praise
In II Chronicles 20, we get the story of Jehoshephat, one of the godly, faithful kings of Judah. He was a good king. He loved the Lord and sought Him in all things. But enemies were coming against them, a vast army made up of three kingdoms united for the purpose of destroying them. Jehoshephat...
Word of the Week – Option
I absolutely love getting notes from readers, especially when they're about word usages...even if they tell me I'm using something incorrectly, LOL. I make mistakes just like anybody, of course, but when someone points something out to me, I immediately go and look it up, soaking up everything I...
What We’ve Been Reading – May 2021
I don't know about you, but where did this month go?! The end of the school year is upon us, summer is just around the corner (or has arrived for some of you), and my TBR is growing by the minute! My next read is On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor by Jaime Jo Wright. I can't wait to share my thoughts...
Thoughtful About . . . His Kingdom
The other week while I was in Ocracoke, my morning devotional began with this passage from Acts 1:4-9 (NKJV): 4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; 5 for John...
About Me
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award nominated author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary.