A few seconds before sitting down and writing this, I get bad news. A call I never dreamed. A person surfacing that I thought we’d never face again. And I reel like many of you have; when you’ve been taken back, discouraged, disheartened by the reality that life isn’t going your way. And who said, skies […]
Marriage Lessons from a Ninety-One-Year-Old in the Grocery Isle. And UNITE Linky
I was only joking when I started thumping on watermelons. But just like my husband, he turns to the wrinkly old man near us and carelessly asks, “How do you tell when watermelons are ripe?” I wanted to run, hide. But then the man answered, looking straight at us, making a fist, he thumps his knuckles […]
When God Cares About A Septic Tank & Sees What’s Hidden In Our Souls
It was the most bizarre thing. I was standing at the kitchen sink, not thinking about anything…and I hear this familiar whisper, “Have your husband call about cleaning the septic tank”? My mind almost had to catch the whispers aiming at my heart… As I just couldn’t understand why my God would care about a septic tank. […]
Facing Your Fears And Walking By Faith
“Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that you will govern all.” Elizabeth Elliot wrote these words despite the fact that her husband, Jim Elliot, was slain by the exact tribe he had been ministering to, in Equador. I am sure Elizabeth didn’t expect to be a widow, […]
Jenner, Media Frenzies, & When Our Spiritual Eyes Are Influenced By Gravity
So, He modeled in Vanity Fair, as a girl. Are we really all that shocked? Don’t we know that darkness seeks hard to tuck itself tight inside holiness, split apart and divide families, take the innocent and devour them slowly? Did we really expect anything different? Satan came to steal, kill, & destroy. And doesn’t that […]
The Duggars, Church Sandals, And Digesting The Character Betrayal Of Others. UNITE Link Party
“He is so anointed”, they told me. So, we drove nearly to Canada to see this tattooed man standing in a group of maybe a hundred people. He walked up the isle right beside me. Talked of his Rolex and how people in the congregation can give him another…or fill his pockets with money…if they wanted. […]