by Dawn Camp | Dec 17, 2018 | (in)courage, holidays
Sisters, I’m going to admit something ugly here. This is a safe space, right? Lean in close so I don’t have to speak these words above a whisper: I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. There, I said it. (Please don’t judge.) Since we’re being honest, can you...
by Dawn Camp | Nov 9, 2018 | (in)courage
My family’s late summer and early fall schedule combines one of my favorite things — watching my kids run — with one of my least favorite things — early mornings. I’m a night owl by nature. My name is one of the great ironies of my life; it’s a time of day I rarely...
by Dawn Camp | Oct 3, 2018 | (in)courage
During my senior year I spent Friday nights under the lights, cheerleading at my high school’s football and basketball games. Our job was to support and encourage the home team, but we spent more time perfecting our cheers and dance routines than studying the nuances...
by Dawn Camp | Aug 11, 2018 | (in)courage
I like to say I grew up on the back of a motorcycle. My dad and his stepdad owned matching Suzukis and enjoyed weekend rides in the mountains of northwest Arkansas. I often went with them. We would leave in the early hours before the sun rose high enough to bake both...
by Dawn Camp | Jul 7, 2018 | (in)courage
While scrolling through Facebook recently I came across a post from a twenty-year-old young lady, a former student of mine from the Classical Conversations program where I teach tenth graders once a week. Although I didn’t know the young man she wrote about, I could...
by Dawn Camp | May 18, 2018 | (in)courage
Hello, friend! Although our lives may seem simple and ordinary — and scripture tells us to seek to lead a quiet life (1 Thessalonians 4:11 CSB) — our experiences and what we learn from them give us influence and a potentially powerful testimony that we...
