Sometimes you have one of those days…..where everything just seems to go wrong. The day we left for L.A. was one of those days. We missed our plane. Then, we learn, this new airline only departs for L.A. every five hours. So, we go back to retrieve our car. Optimism slowly starving. And my spirit searches […]
I stand in the center of a map of the world. Call2All Conference in L.A. And I hear a voice. Familiar. Deep. Coming from behind. The piece of me I have so longed to see….. And there you are. Tan. Tall. Shining bright before all. And you look different: Older. Wiser. Brighter…….with the light of Jesus. […]
Word Unspeakable. Offensive. Disreputable. Disrespectable. Disregardable to many. And it makes me question….. This word….is it part of our being? And do we often run from. Reject. Disown things that reflect pieces of ourselves we don’t like? The word? Homeless. And I question…. Does this word offend us….because Home isn’t in us? And this world…..though beautiful. […]
Though there are a million things to do….I open the Word this morning and read……“The rest”…in Hebrews. “Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall…..” And, I think of how…..“The Rest” is the same as the, “Be Still”. The knowing He is God that comes when we stop, take the time, make […]
We have been going along fine. One year after hosting a small group. Something God told my husband to do…..a decade ago. But, I refused. Until, one night….I see an image of people filling our living room…..in a dream. And I heard a voice from heaven say….. “Many will come in. And many will go out […]
I went to pray for the persecuted church. Thinking…..God can use me. His purposes will change because I prayed. But, reading, “The Heavenly Man”, as I curl up in bed at night before sleep….. I got a different perspective of what persecution is and my entire mindset began to change. Brother Yun says, “Embrace suffering like […]