“Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They’ll stay faithful as long as it’s safe and doesn’t involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.” ~ Charles StanleyBefore I started reading my Bible, you know, before I […]
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 […]
I have seen him once in eight months. My nearly nineteen-years-old, six-foot-three, baby. The price, I guess, of a son called to missions as a missionary. So, when I see his name flash on my phone, hearing it’s loud ringing…..I quickly pick it up. Bubbling so much….just to hear his deep man tone. That child formed […]
When I first started growing in the faith, I used to write on the right column of my journal, “Prayers” On the left, my list of… “Thanks”. Each day when I sat down, I would look back and accumulate my thoughts. Remember His goodness. See the magnificence of God…..and how He DID answer prayer, in small […]
My childhood home. Wisdom takes a seat with littlest one. Anticipating with wide eyes the stack before her. Natures delight waiting to do more than hang on limbs. Exploding with color to the taste buds they cry. And the two sit at ancestors table. The one I hid peas under when I was so little….rebellious. Yet, […]
I struggle to figure Him out today. I want to come…with gifts…of wheat, or meat, or grain…or something. But He requires nothing. I want to share with Him, show Him all I am. But His demands of me? Only emptiness. I want to parade my talents, my strengths, my wisdom. But nothing I offer Him suffices. […]