Have you ever been somewhere and flashed back in time? Seeing little glimpses of film-like pictures in your mind of what used to be? I curl in a hammock on our property, new foster baby in arms cuddling close. My seven-year old hammock-surfing, a new game we invented for a little fun while passing time. The […]
Encountering the Presence of the Secret Place
It all starts in the Secret Place. I worship. Come to Him with weeping. My heavy yoke burdening me. It’s time its His. Again. I enter the tent of Asian. The Holy Place where His glory lives…a place where mere words are far from sufficient. It falls away like scales. These weights, all burdens slowing my […]
What We Can Forget About The Cross And Resurrection
The plane descends from the heavens, and the ground thickens as the clouds pour out their initiation to Spring. Sprigs of purple, pink. Weeping trees bending at the glory of it all. Fruit promised from the blooms we see…if ground doesn’t freeze, sun and rain keep dancing in perfect harmony. And I want fruit. Don’t you? […]
How to Love Unloving People
“Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.” ~ Watchman Nee Let’s face it; sometimes people are hard to love, and boulders of offensecan “snowball” inside us, until hurt from others hinders […]
Real Women. Real Hope. Real Faith. Missional Women Conference 2014
I got the e-mail, then a loud, “yes” in my spirit, after reading the words, “Would you consider writing for Missional Women” over a year ago. At the time, I didn’t know what I was getting into. It was blind faith, really…and trusting that still small voice inside me that saw, what at the time, I […]
How Extravagance Catches the Eye of God
When we hear the word “extravagant”, we often think about the opposite of who Jesus is. As we know, He came meek, humble, quiet in a manger. And even more so, we know about The Blessed… Blessed are….the weak, poor, hungry etc. as it talks about on the Sermon on the Mount. But what if, when […]