We were 36,000 feet up, on our way to the Missional Women’s Conference. I saw him from afar, and anticipated whether his six-foot, four frame would land on the empty, isle seat next to me. It did. We started talking. He was a world-traveling designer, for one of the top brands. I was a housewife, headed […]
Have You Found True Love? UNITE Linky
I ask Him what love is this morning. And I hear His whisper… Love is letting His Spirit work freely, looking into people and seeing them completely. Love is giving Him the reigns in each situation and speaking His words of grace, truth, and mercy. Love forgives freely, declares purposes boldly, showers His Spirit over each […]
Love is Not A Mathematical Equation. UNITE Linky
I remember when she picked out the rock. Smooth surfaces, each imprinted with words on them, like, “faith”, “hope”, and “love”. She was a child we cared for, loved and walked with while testifying. It was hard. She needed encouragement. The prosecuting attorney asked her to pick something small to cling to as she sat as […]
What Does Loving Without Judging Look Like?
We have all heard, “Don’t judge”. It’s the equivalent of, “get out of my business”. Or, “I don’t want your input into whatever it is I am doing (good or bad)”. But Jesus came to break our chains, make a ways for us to get past the walls put between us, as people. Jesus called out […]
What Is Love In A World Full Of Fakes?
She regresses. This child in our home who has become the battleground of her parents. She throws her coat, bites, and hits the ones this two-year-old has chosen to give her full trust to… As if cutting skin, and projecting pain can somehow alleviate the hurt within. He sits in our church meeting. A stranger, riding […]
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 […]