When I’m just not feeling like doing the right thing … God has instructions for that.
Mother’s Day is for the Perfectly Imperfect
If you’re a mom, do you recall the early days of motherhood? When laundry was endless and the nights were endlessly without sleep? When that infant became a toddler and first called you by name? Mama. When your heart melted on the spot to see someone so small, so tender, so vulnerable, reaching out for…
Round Two (Or Ten!)
Have you ever fought a good fight only to find you needed to don those boxing gloves again? I had to face a significant fear I’d held in the past. Yesteryear had come and gone and God had showed up in a big way the first time I had to look that fear right in…
Unburdening a Weary Heart
How’s your week been? Was it busy, overloaded, stressful? It’s hard living in this world. It takes constant prayer and intention to be in it but not of it. If you’re anything like me, there are moments when it can feel exhausting. Times when I sequester myself and tell God I just want to spend…
Why is Good Friday Good?
Have you ever wondered why Good Friday is called “good”? Being a believer since childhood, I got used to the name and didn’t really think much about it. It came around annually; it was simply the Friday before Easter. But when reading the events of that day in the Bible, when Jesus was forced to…
A Senseless Love
A few years ago, I feel in love. Tragically, that love was not returned. Our puppy Tipper, might protect me, but she certainly did not obey me. She might stand between me and the lumbering trash truck in the street. She might plant herself between me and the large city worker in our yard. She…
Answering the Nudge
When you feel God pushing you to share, it’s not usually about you. It’s often to help another of His children to heal.
Practicing Patience
Do you want more patience? Me too and I would like it now, please! God promises to provide what we need. Does that include patience?
Goodness in Psalm 23
Remembering the truths of Psalm 23 over the decades.
Drawing Closer by Practicing Patience
Are you a patient person? Can you pray and although you might not like it, you can resolve yourself to waiting? Walking with the Lord for decades now, I am definitely growing in the “Give it to God and wait patiently” category. I consider myself a patient person except when it comes to my kids….