SPILLED GIFTS

It was summer 2013.  There was a good group of us on the Honduran village trail that day.  Hot temperature, cooled only by the frequent showers from the constant clouds that hovered in the skies.  We had traveled to many houses that day, Marie, our voice to the neighbors had…

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Right Spirit-Right Heart-Strong Heart

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.  Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.  Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;…

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HOPE is a CHOICE

2016 is not yet here—but it is coming!  A year for HOPE.  I barely have my tree up–and my heart is already looking at 2016.  I know.  Stay in the present…but I find it hard sometimes.  I keep straining to peek into 2016. Before the New Year gets here, I wanted to…

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Clinging

What do you notice about this picture?  I took it because of the flowers…but upon closer examination I find one Mr. Ant clinging to the leafless skinny branch.  Clinging.   Crawling, at an ant’s pace.  Sure, it may have been fast to him, but to me–it was very.very.slow.  And perhaps…

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But What Can I Do?

My husband often shares how he finally accepted the call to ministry.  For so long he ignored the Voice that kept speaking –tugging– nudging his heart.  Finally one day in prayer, as a wrestling match was going on inside his heart, God spoke with the soft voice of the Holy…

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