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Because I know prayer changes things, we must pray and keep on praying. Here are some posts that will build your faith and inspire you to persist until you breakthrough to victory.
The yellow sausages are rolling down the highways again. They are stuffed with squirming, energetic students armed with shiny new pencils and clean notebooks with only their names scrawled across the front. Dressed in new clothes and sporting fresh haircuts they arrive to face a new school year. Moms exhausted from hearing the incessant”I’m bored” […]
Having a baby is such a joy filled time. Getting ready for it’s arrival. Preparing the room. Selecting the tiny, little clothes. The anticipation of it’s arrival. Choosing the right name. Telling your family and friends. But it had to have been totally different for Jochebed. If I told you her life was hard, you might […]
I had breakfast at the fig tree this morning. It wasn’t that I actually intended to, it just sorta happened that way. When Wayne and I returned from our 4 mile walk, I wanted to see if there were any ripe figs on the tree. And there was…so I indulged! My breakfast companion, a […]
I had a blast! It was an amazing conference on so many levels. Even though I taught 4 workshops, I left energized and wishing it could last a little longer. I’ve got a list of “I Had A Blast” things that have happened to me lately. I think you’ll be hearing about them in upcoming […]
Failure is not our enemy! We know that! So why do we drag failure into our future? It only makes us a prisoner. It limits us. It labels us. It sets us up to fail again! It totally paralyzes us! Or we just use it for a whip to beat ourselves up every time we […]
Wrapped in a seven page speech delivered by President Theodore Roosevelt’s at Sorbonne in Paris, France on April 23, 1910 is a powerful little paragraph that continues to be a source of inspiration and insight. The Man in the Arena by Theodore Roosevelt It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the […]
Both prudence and fear took him to his hiding place. He had managed to grow a little wheat and he didn’t want the marauding Midianites to catch him trying to process it. Because it wasn’t grape season, he knew no one would look for him at the winepress. But he was wrong. The Bible doesn’t […]
We have an absolutely fabulous Farmer’s Market in Jacksonville. Row after row of fruits and vegetables fill baskets and boxes and crates. Flats of fat, juicy blackberries, nothing like the wild ones I grew up scavenging from empty lots and roadsides. Fresh watermelons with bright green stems, fragrant peaches with rosy cheeks, vibrant purple eggplant, yellow […]
I was shopping in the garden department when I noticed two boys painstakingly specific in their color choice. They were convinced that you simply CAN’T give your dad a pink rose bush for Father’s Day. The boys circled the pallets of “Knock Out Roses” like vultures, searching for “the perfect red, big and beautiful rose […]
That’s right! I am thrilled, absolutely thrilled that Pentecost is a thing of the past. I could give you tons of reasons why I feel that way, but my post would be way too long, so I’ll just give you five reasons. Every time I think about the fact that Pentecost is a thing of the […]
Do you ever have words that echo in the caverns of your mind? Words that bounce back and forth and seem to get louder instead of dimmer? It happens to me a lot. This week the words were birthed from last week’s blog about my precious daughter-in-law Jenny. In my Bible study I ran across […]
You will never hear me say, “Please, let me run”. But that’s what I read in the story of Absalom’s coup in Scripture. And I’ve heard my daughter-in-law, Jenny, say it in response to my wanting to give her a break away from the children. I suggested shopping. She suggested running. Maybe, I noticed the two […]
