Weed Your Garden
I am no gardener, and while I like a pretty yard and flowers, I don’t enjoy yard work. So I procrastinate until I can’t avoid the yard work any longer. This past weekend I was outside pulling weeds and trimming overgrown grass …
Blooms in the Desert
Have you seen the super bloom happening in California? These beautiful flowers are sprouting all over desert areas whose very name qualifies it as a place where nothing lives.
Hearing Problems Lead to Listening Problems
My 17-year-old hasn’t changed at all since she was a child. She is determined, self-motivated, and goal-orientated. She sees what she wants and no obstacles get in her way. I constantly remind myself how great these traits are—or will be, once they’re shaped through God’s hands.
More of Him
Friends, we will never be all we want to be until we align that pursuit with who God created us to be. Until we…
Where’s Your Focus?
I was reading all about Peter jumping out of the boat and walking across the stormy waters toward Jesus. I always have loved this story. The faith it took for Peter to leave the safety of his boat. The love he had to have for his Savior to desire so much to be near him. And the fact …
Old Habits Die Hard
This past week I was reading Genesis. Sometimes I just like to go back to the beginning. Anyway, I came to the whole Joseph's brothers selling him into slavery part and dove into the familiar story. But it was once I arrived at the end that I stumbled on a few little words that I didn't remember seeing before.
Old Habits Die Hard
…We need to stop jumping through whatever hoops we think it'll take to change and start believing in the power of Christ in our lives…
Battle Praise
There is something amazing that happens as I open God’s Word in the morning and just read it. Some days it’s simply one chapter, other days I’m pulled into a story and blow through five or six. If you haven’t ever accomplished reading His story, I challenge you to try it.
Be Unshakeable
I was recently reading a section of Acts where Stephen recounts what we now call the Old Testament. Stephen summed up all the major plot points and kept it short. I was marveling at what appeared his natural ability to give a summary when something stopped me. It was one line about the Israelites and that golden calf:
I Don’t Want to be Normal
Normal says that in the face of adversity we aren't joyful.
Normal says to be beautiful we must be a certain weight--and have no wrinkles.
Normal says our worth is measured in "likes" and "follows".
Normal says our identity is found in our abilities and successes.
Normal says our acceptance is found in the crowd around us.
Things Unseen
I have a prayer journal. Some of my prayers in it seem like a lifetime of prayer has gone into them and I'm still waiting to see answers. And I'm not going to lie, I fight frustration and discouragement over this...is God even listening? Why is it that I can pray, and pray, and pray some more and yet see nothing happen?
Who’s Navigating?
So today I was taking my kids to the dentist. My “almost” eleven year old – his birthday is in eight days so that “almost” is very important to him – was sitting behind me watching closely where we were headed. I took a different way then usual and from the back seat I heard, “Um, Mom…I don’t think we’re headed the right way.”