Encouraging Women to Passionately Pursue God
“A shot? Seriously?” asked my then twelve-year-old daughter, “I thought I was finished with those.” “This is a booster shot, ” I explained, “It will help ‘remind’ your immune system that the bacteria which can cause tetanus is already known as foreign to the body and therefore should be attacked. If the immune system does…
Quarantine. Riots. Mandated social distancing. It’s been six months! Lord, make this end! Today, please! I can’t do this anymore! Not the first time in my life I prayed these sentences. Twelve years ago, I uttered the same prayer. I was a cancer patient. After four months of hard chemotherapy, I had four treatments left….
With over 30 trillion cells, the human body is amazing! And just as astonishing is the fact that our bodies utilize the foods we consume to rebuild, refresh, and renew each of those cells! Our bodies are a constant work in progress! We have learned, if we want to operate at peak performance, we must…
“Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.” Proverbs 1:8-9 (NIV) Often, our children grudgingly learn the above verse in Sunday school. By mid-elementary, they almost personally connect to the meaning of this…
True story: Once upon a time, there was a pastor concerned with the potential to become prideful. To keep himself in check, he requested a certain task to be reserved for him alone: cleaning the men’s bathroom at the church. The years passed. He wrote books and spoke around the world; yet every week he…
“Why?” My little girl in a pony tail innocently asked. She was three and had to know the reason for EVERYTHING. She also asked about a thousand other questions daily. How does this work? What makes the batter into cookies? Why do I need to drink milk? I treasured naptime during that era. When she…
“Oh, no, there’s a deer!” I dropped my berries in the bucket, and looked down the path into the woods. Sure enough, there stood a gentle doe, her head lifted slightly from the grass she had been grazing, eyes staring intently upon me and my husband, John. Our 80 pound Rottweiler, Minna, had picked up…
Scrolling through social media I often feel assaulted by angry, accusatory posts. We are living through a difficult time where our world feels turned upside down; everything we knew is now different. I get it. Our tolerance levels are at an all-time low while tension is at an all-time high. There was a time when…
Wouldn’t you love to have known Noah personally? I would! What did he do? What did he NOT do? Imagine that scenario: “to be blameless and walk with God”. In Genesis 6:9 Noah is called ” righteous, blameless among the people of his time.” Noah didn’t live in utopia. He lived in an “earth that…
Sitting around the dinner table, one of my daughters dumped a cascade of emotions she’d bottled up far too long. Frustration, bewilderment and anger all poured forth. She ended with, “It will never get any better!” I swallowed hard, fighting tears of empathy and quieted my mama’s correction voice. “TORPAL,” her sisters chorused. Looking around…