I’m linking up for this week’s Five Minute Friday prompt … “Mess”, and sharing a bit about my mess.
I thought it would never change.
I thought I would never change.
Years and years after salvation, my trying to change produced nothing…but discouragement.Continue reading
Writing has been a struggle of late. I wouldn’t be being honest if I said I didn’t know why. I know why because I know that for the writer I am, writing primarily about God and His life-giving Word, writing is simply overflow. And lately, there’s been none.Continue reading
I’ve been thinking about this heart problem I’ve been diagnosed with. You remember…the one I thought was a mouth problem until reminded my tongue was simply speaking from the abundance of my heart. Yeah, that heart problem. I’ve recognized this abundance my mouth is speaking from is just that…an abundance. Yes, I have an overflowing, bountiful crop. And with a harvest so apparent I’m remembering something I’m surprised I let slip. You don’t get a harvest without planting some seed. But what is this seed?Continue reading
My mouth has been giving me trouble of late. I admit, sometimes I even surprise myself. Something’s just not right. Where’s this venom coming from? I need to get a grip. This is causing issues and something’s got to change, so I write myself a simple prescription…Continue reading
It was seventeen years ago that I first met Danita. We’d just moved to Florida, had begun attending a huge church and she was the first woman to reach out to me, a one-on-one encounter amidst a sea of people. Over lunch one day I got my first glimpse of this extraordinary woman. Continue reading
The Power of Romans 15:5My husband and I just returned from a marvelous vacation in Mexico. We have arrived at the stage of life where we’re traveling and experiencing new adventures, seeing new places, meeting wonderful people, witnessing other cultures and just plain enjoying life and each other.
Ahhh, wedded bliss. But don’t be fooled. It hasn’t always been like this.Continue reading
Ever since I became a Christian it was my desire to reflect the character and image of God. I saw it was His desire too, for He said, “Be holy as I am holy”. Unfortunately, I failed miserably. Year after frustrating year I tried, but still saw very ugly fruit in my life.
Wouldn’t my constant reading and praying lead to obeying? It did not. No, something entirely different finally brought the transformation I desperately longed for. Continue reading
The message is all around us…it’s heard from pulpits, written about in books, and voiced in song. Be like God.
The message is within us….a constant voice in our head, keeping us forever conscious.Continue reading
Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?”
They confronted Him with the truth…
they confronted Him with the Law.
Now they would see. Would He obey it?Continue reading
I have this tendency. I think we all do. I think more about goodness than grace, and it always leaves me feeling condemned, not clean…and my life reflects it. But shouldn’t thinking about the ‘shoulds’ make us more obedient? Well, that’s where we miss it.
We constantly miss it because…Continue reading