For my yoke is easy and my burden is light (Matthew 11:30). What?!? Does anyone else struggle with summers? As summer approaches each year and the countdown begins for school to end, this is what I dream… The clock is not the master of my time. Natural rhythms of life can instead be […]
Where words are many, sin is not absent, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent (Proverbs 10:19) This verse has always alarmed me. Based on these words, when there is a whole lot of talking going on, sin is most likely occurring. Not a good thing. Summer is filled with extra air time. The kids […]
At the throne of God, seraphs are flying around… And they were calling to one another: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory. (Isaiah 6:3) I am tired of hearing about God’s love…. without talking about His holiness too. God is love, yes, but He is also […]
Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21). Every word we speak either benefits or harms. Every word. Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, (death) but a man of understanding holds his tongue (life) (Proverbs 11:12) There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts (death), but the tongue of […]
Today I geared up for teaching summer session and mentally prepared to meet another group of students and give them my best efforts. Once my course was set up, my thoughts turned to my tentative summer plans…visitors, sleepovers, birthday celebrations and potential trips. Then it hit me. Most of you are in exactly the same […]
As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God… (Psalm 42:1, 2, ESV) THE TRUTH My life has been changed when my perspective about how to read God’s Word changed about ten years ago. I remember hearing Anne Graham […]
I mentioned in my blog last week that I am currently emotionally raw because of my circumstances. In addition, God has me coming face-to-face with some truths from His Word that have me pondering service to others. I have certainly served in my lifetime. What mom doesn’t serve? Anyone who knows me, however, knows that […]
Hello dear readers, whoever you are. It’s Mother’s Day. The Glad… For those of you being blessed with breakfast in bed, receiving presents made by the little hands of your young children and reading notes featuring phonetic spelling in crayon…Hurray! Soak it up. I pray your heart is so full today that joy spills over […]
When my daughter asked me to join a walk in our city to support research and awareness for her auto-immune disease, I said yes. I said yes so I could walk a mile in her shoes. I said yes so I could walk alongside her like I have done my whole life. I said yes […]
Jesus LOVES me this I know. Even people who have little spiritual interest know this popular song written in 1860. Like you, I cherish the thought that Jesus loves me. We cannot be separated from that love (Romans 8:38-39). He will come crashing through the clouds on our behalf (Isaiah 41:9-10). He wants the best […]
