My house is usually full of people during the holidays, which is amazingly beautiful and messy all wrapped up together. Laughter and tears, cooking and baking, extras squeezed around the table, stacks of dishes, loads of laundry and late-night talks. Then all too soon, everyone leaves and I’m teary-eyed and cranky. (The crankiness doesn’t last more than a day or …
Becoming a Wise Person
Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. Matthew 7:24 Most of us can call this passage to mind about the wise and foolish builders. My husband and I are currently in the process of watching a house being built. There is so …
A Faithful Man
I consider myself twice blessed with faithful men in my life – my father and my husband. My father was and continues to be a faithful man – to his wife, his family and to The Lord. My husband is a faithful man as well. I experienced a broken engagement before meeting Danny, and I often thank The Lord for …
A Woman of Prayer
The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops. James 5:16b-18 Prayer doesn’t require …
I Will Rejoice!
I realize it may be dramatic to admit, but there have been times in my life that this verse has been my anthem. Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle …
The Parental Release
Parenting ~ how can this word bring out so many emotions from my heart? My love for my two is fierce. My hunger to see them live out their destinies is insatiable. I will fight on their behalf until my dying breath. The year my husband and I released our firstborn child was much harder than imagined. It caught my …
Decisions that Become Defining Moments
Time is passing by at the same pace every hour of every day, but some moments seem to linger more than others. If you’ve lived long enough, you can look back and see decisions that become defining moments. Maybe your look back is in regret of a bad decision, in pain because of a difficult decision, or in gratefulness of …
Is God Really Good All the Time?
Have you ever felt like a dark cloud is hanging over you? I typically walk around with a sunny disposition, but whenever I hear the song, King of My Heart, by John Mark McMillan and Sarah McMillan, I am challenged in my view of God’s goodness. Questions arise in my heart. Do I really believe God is good, all the time? Do …
Hidden in Christ
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3 A friend recently asked me what I thought it meant to be “hidden” in Christ. I had just been contemplating not hiding my light for Jesus, not being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. As the world gets darker and darker we might be tempted to …
There is Still Room to Grow
I am a local church girl through and through (and have been since I was a toddler), I’ve been digging deep in various Bible study groups for well over 20 years, but nothing has grown my faith more than personally engaging in Scripture on my own. Please don’t get me wrong, being part of a local church body will always …