Christmas is nine days away. The last day of school for many children is only four days away. Adding to our normal daily routines, this season delivers helping children study for midterms, gift shopping, Christmas cards and extra doses of groceries, cooking, baking, traveling, guests, family dynamics and cleaning. What am I forgetting? Oh, yes. […]
Usually I like to post a warm and fuzzy post for Thanksgiving week about gratitude, but not this year. Families and friends are gathered around good food all across our nation this week in hopes of enjoying themselves. But so often we don’t enjoy ourselves. Being with family can be hard, and for so many, […]
Last week I wrote about praying for my son to be on a basketball team with his friend. (HERE) When it didn’t happen, I trusted it was God’s best and told him so. A few days later, he asked if I could talk to the coach and maybe get switched to the same team after […]
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:21) I read this verse last week and cannot get it out of my head. To live is Christ. What does that mean? It means He is all we have. Everything else you can name is as fleeting as the blink […]
45 years of being a Christian – seven years of crazy = 38 years of walking closely with God. What GREAT years each has been, every one. God has never left my side through thick or thin. I have seen miracles because He has put me in the position of needing a miracle time and time […]
Faith is a muscle. By that, I mean we can’t just snap our fingers and suddenly have faith strong enough to make it through difficult circumstances. We need to utilize day-to-day normal life happenings to practice walking by faith so we are ready when absolutely everything we have will be demanded of us in order […]
When I was 32 years old, I took karate. There I was, five foot eight inches tall, barefoot, wearing a white ghee, and surrounded by eight- and nine-year-old children. It was a sight to behold, I am sure. The night I was testing for my purple belt, Sensei Carl announced we would be breaking boards. […]
Water spilled in my purse recently and my cell phone took a swim for an hour before I discovered it. Even several hours later, when my son shook the phone, water came out of the ports and made water spots on his shorts. There I was; The device I use for all scheduling and planning […]
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.(1 Chronicles 29:15) I was thinking this week about what it looks like to live as a traveler or sojourner on a practical level. Having just returned from a […]
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 A few times this week, I was thankful for living my life as a Spirit-filled Christian. By that term, I mean that I realize I have no power to live […]
