These past 2 weeks I’ve been visiting my Mom and family at my childhood home farm in Ohio. My brother Dan has been making hay this whole time because the weather has been sunny and hot every day, perfect weather for this! As it turns out, 4 of my 5 children and 7 of my […]
Dear friends, I had the privilege of doing this podcast recently with Sisters of the Crown, a very special ministry for women. They call women up to live in their rightful dignity as daughters of the King of Kings. This podcast is about a story of a very hard season in my own life when […]
Dear Friends, This year has been one for the history books! We’ve been living through a pandemic, living in quarantine – now coming out in stages, seeing a terrible tragedy in Minnesota and resulting racial unrest, political dissension, the list goes on! One thing I know about us human beings is that we often struggle […]
Dear friends, Today I’m sharing a post my husband wrote on the Life Model Works blog. I felt it was relevant for the times we find ourselves in now. “My wife and I were reading through Judges this morning about the story of Gideon. I think we sometimes over-glorify certain Bible characters because God used […]
Micah 6:8 – He has shown you, O man what is good; and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. We are living in a time of cultural upheaval that reminds me of the 1960’s and 1970’s when I was growing […]
Several nights in a row I was dreaming and distinctly remembered a particular question when I woke up. The question was, “Can a leopard change its’ spots?” I was puzzled by this. I remembered that this was a quote from the Old Testament somewhere so I looked it up. It’s in Jeremiah 13:23 – I’ll […]
Dear Friends, This verse of Scripture has been showing up everywhere it seems – and when that happens I know I need to pay attention. The Message version of the Bible says it incredible well: “All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. […]
Greetings to all of you! These words above came to me when I was at the very weakest point in my life. In 2004 I had brain surgery to mitigate a brain seizure disorder called trigeminal neuralgia. The surgery stopped the seizures but the nerve coating on that cranio-facial nerve was disintegrated and needed to […]
Happy Mother’s Day to all! Whether you have a mom or are a mom, or neither, this is a day to celebrate the way women care for the people they love. Here’s a quote from my book The Divine Invitation about Mama Bears: “Mother-love is nurturing, constant, life-giving, lifelong, fierce, tender, tough and unstoppable. It is the […]
SOUL DEBRIS Dear Friends, The picture here is not very pretty. None of us would want to be on this beach with all the trash laying around! As many of us have extra time on our hands during quarantine, what if we took the time to do some clean-up? I’m thinking of the things we […]
