Goodbye and Hello

Halloween Day…the last day of spooky things and trick-or-treating. The last day of October. The last day of the 31 Days Writing Challenge! The beginning of Thanksgiving planning and celebration. The beginning of blogging just to blog. The gift of an extra hour of sleep tonight. I do love this time of year. As one … [Read more…]

What’s Next?

Wow…thank you. Wow. I approach my second to last writing of the challenge with tears in my eyes. I’m just so thankful for you and the ability to enter and complete this challenge with your heartening words resounding through my efforts. I spent blessed time with dear family yesterday, slept soundly and woke up to encouragement. … [Read more…]

A Relationship With God

Hello, dear readers… It’s another beautiful autumn day! Thanks be to God! I would like to talk a little today about what a relationship with God looks like. Why? Because I know firsthand how confusing that can be and I’ve learned there are many questions surrounding that very topic. It’s difficult for us, as people, … [Read more…]

Happily Imperfect

Hello again… I can’t believe I’m down to just a few days with the writing challenge! Where did October go? It is so beautiful outside right now and it almost breaks my heart to see the colorful leaves falling so fast as the bareness of winter approaches. October has always been one of my favorite months … [Read more…]

How Big Is Our God?

Hello again, friends. Another Monday has come. From our limited perspective, life can sometimes feel like an unrelenting drone. Mondays are monotonous at best. They just keep coming. We just keep trying to put them behind us living more fully for the days offering freedom outside of tedious routine. But often, we’re right smack dab in the middle of a … [Read more…]

The Wages of Sin…

Hello, friends. Happy Sunday! I am still flying high from the service I attended earlier at my church. We had such a blessed time of worship today and our message was unbelievable! (More on that last part tomorrow!) Since I am again running short on time, I would like to share with you the Communion … [Read more…]

Is that you, Lord?

Yesterday, I was writing about the voice of God and how it leads us to rest. Today, I’d like to further discuss that topic while pointing out a simple truth: other voices will certainly compete for our attention. We need to use holy discernment to figure out one voice from the other but we must also … [Read more…]

When God Speaks

Isn’t it funny how often we ignore our needs? We work and work with no rest until we drive our bodies into the ground. We attack overwhelmingly large challenges on our own thinking we can handle them until we’ve buried ourselves so deep, we can no longer see a way out. We keep putting off phone calls … [Read more…]

The Heart Of Worship

Hello friends, I’m getting home late tonight and have less than 2 hours to get today’s post in. I think I’ll just share with you a previously written article of mine if that’s alright by you! Thanks. I knew you’d understand. The Heart Of Worship In the late 1990s, Matt Redman wrote a song called … [Read more…]