My middle child will be eight on Thanksgiving day and I can think of nothing more appropriate. This is a child who, when it is her turn to pray, will pray, and pray, and pray, listing all those she can think of who need prayer as well as all those…
Read moreI can do everything through him who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13 NIV Tonight I will face one of my biggest fears – speaking in public. This is my first speaking assignment in the writing/speaking/women’s leadership class that meets monthly. It is part of the Forever 31 – Gather and…
Read more“This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth,…
Read moreI have been a bit like a “one note song” of late. It takes me a long time to learn the really difficult things the Lord is trying to teach me. Some things come easily – like forgiveness. Others are much harder – like absolute trust. And so we,…
Read moreI watched the older Asian man in the black trench coat and bowler hat wave at the passing cars this morning. That guy is so peculiar I thought to myself. Every morning for years he has strolled around my neighborhood. Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall, you will find him walking…
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