I wanted to share a photo of me and my Valentine with you today… …his name is Michael and we have been Valentines for 43 years now❤️ If you are in the mood to have a little fun, do this with your Valentine (spouse, significant other, friend, pet (well maybe not), or whoever!) and fill […]
Today I want to help us take the next step toward suffering gracefully by taking a look at a passage of Scripture that describes the ‘Now’ and the ‘Not Yet’ of the Kingdom of God. All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. […]
Today I’m feeling led to talk about something unpleasant but very real. I plan to do a series on this topic because one swipe at it just isn’t enough. It’s about suffering with grace when pain doesn’t yield to our prayers of faith. Since 2004 I have suffered with chronic pain. It has never caused […]
A friend of ours has just came out with a new book – you see it pictured above in this post. It’s called The Joy Switch by Chris Coursey, published by Northfield Publishing. It’s a short read – only 165 pages – but chock full of great stuff that’s very applicable to your personal life […]
Today we celebrate Martin Luther King Day in honor of the man who had a dream. I took a look at an excerpt of this famous man’s speech that is one of the most quoted ever in our history. Here is his dream: “I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face […]
“I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait I say, on the Lord!” Psalm 27: 13,14 NKJV What do you see as you look toward the year […]
Dear Friends, How are you feeling about the new year? Hopeful, eager, skeptical, weary, glad, sad, mad? I would love to bring some encouragement to you today at the beginning off 2021! I decided to re-post a video from January last year that I did with Michele Gooch, leader of The Plaid Network for Women […]
Here we are at the beginning of a new year, 2021 has arrived! Each year on New Year’s Eve I try to take extra time to journal, pray, read Scripture and listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying about the year ahead. In the dialogue I was having with the Lord about this in […]
As 2020 comes to a close, I’m wondering what your musings are. How are you doing in response to what we are facing in our world – to the political, racial and health concerns we are presently in? Every one of us knows that things are not as they should be. But do we really […]
I’ve had this song playing in my head today over and over. You will recognize it I’m sure – it’s called O Holy Night. O holy night, the stars are brightly shiningIt is the night of our dear Savior’s birthLong lay the world, in sin and error pining‘Til He appeared and the soul felt its […]
