God — The Morris Tribe

Our Adoption Story: Part 1

June 27, 2011 By kmorris 11 Comments

As I look for a minute to schedule this year’s mammogram, I couldn’t help but reflect on what was happening in our home, just one year ago this month. I thought you might be interested in reading a multiple part post from that time. It’s a tale of pregnancy, breast cancer, adoption and God’s plan [...]

Filed Under: Adoption, Adoption, Kelly's Musings Tagged With: bi-lateral biopsy, core needle biopsy, ethiopian adoption, mammogram

Healing Past Hurts

June 26, 2011 By kmorris 8 Comments

Photo credit “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.” Joel 2:25 KJV Have you ever seen how much damage locust can do? They can overtake hundreds of acres of crops in a [...]

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Control Freak

June 12, 2011 By kmorris Leave a Comment

As I ran errands this morning, I heard someone on Christian radio talking about “control“. Being a “recovering control freak” myself, among other things, my ears perked up. We try to control those around us because we think we know how everything should be. Then when everyone in our world doesn’t measure up and/or perform [...]

Filed Under: Choosing balance, God, Self-control

Controlling Anger

June 5, 2011 By kmorris Leave a Comment

Do you struggle with anger? To some degree, all of us do. Anger in our lives stems primarily from unmet expectations. I also find that those expectations usually involve people… people who don’t meet my expectations. Most of the time, my expectations seem reasonable. Yet, people continually disappoint. It is only when I [...]

Filed Under: Choosing balance, God, Gratitude, Self-control Tagged With: anger

How to Make Natural Wedding Favors

May 30, 2011 By kmorris 3 Comments

Looking for something creative for your wedding favors? Try these Mini Herb Pots! This is not only creative and original, but it’s useful for your guests! Take into consideration your guest list and choose herbs that they might enjoy. Choosing a variety of seeds will insure that everyone gets a different plant, that alone will [...]

Filed Under: Herbs, Marriage

Did You or Someone You Love Really Blow It This Week? Psalm 51

May 29, 2011 By kmorris 2 Comments

One of the things I love most about God and His Word is that we don’t have to have it all together to come to him. Long after our conversion experience, we can still rest secure in the very same grace that saved us in the first place. Not only do we not have to [...]

Filed Under: God Tagged With: forgiveness

Cry Out to God

May 22, 2011 By kmorris 16 Comments

Good Sunday to you! I don’t usually post on Sunday, but today I must. As you know, we have a new dairy goat named Oreo. While she is lovely, she has been pretty stressed and very difficult to milk. Her milk production has gone down to about 1/2 of what she gave before she [...]

Filed Under: Dairy Goats, God, Gratitude, Homesteading

Two Things You Are Doing Right: "Show Up" and "Care"

March 25, 2011 By kmorris 10 Comments

This has been a tough week for me…real tough. Sometimes I feel so inadequate for the job that God has placed before me. At times, I cry out to God in prayer and ask Him what He was thinking when He chose me to be the Morristribe wife and mom. At my deepest points of [...]

Filed Under: Marriage, Parenting Tagged With: show up and care

Give Back Friday: ONE Million Meals!

March 4, 2011 By kmorris 2 Comments

What a fabulous success the Kid’s Against Hunger ~ Million Meal Marathon was! Check out a short clip…. After a quick sandwich dinner, we piled all the kids in the bus, along with one additional teenager friend, and headed for Cincinnati. Our goal? To send 1,000,000 meals to Haiti. When we arrived, the place was [...]

Filed Under: Ministry Tagged With: KAH million meal marathon

Give Back Friday: Donate and Teach

February 11, 2011 By kmorris 9 Comments

I had the chance to have lunch with my wonderful man this week, he took this picture just as the coffee started to kick in…..Hazelnut coffee on a freezing cold day, ahhhhhhhh. As the discussion this week has included a number of ways to save money, I want to conclude with a way [...]

Filed Under: Give Back Friday, Kelly's Musings, Ministry Tagged With: Give Back Friday, literacy