I’ve often said, rather tongue-in-cheek, that “I was a lot more holy person before I married and had children.” The truth is that as a single woman I was jealous, frustrated, selfish, and quick to react, but I just didn’t have the stimulus to bring all of that out of me like I find in […]
For Thirteen years, I was the baby of the family. I was the pesky little sister who wanted attention and to play with my older brother who was three years my senior. He wasn’t interested in dolls, dancing, and entertaining much, so I felt it my duty to initiate him into the world of an
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Using the finite capabilities of my mom mind, I endeavor to find word pictures and illustrations to help me to explain truths that I learn about God and His character. Many illustrations I find are written in the examples of my children and my relationship with them, so if you would excuse the simplicity of
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You wouldn’t believe me if I told you, but I had the most amazing conversation the other day. My computer was not working correctly and giving me a lot of trouble with the programs. I took it to some shops to have it looked at and many different technicians tried to help me with the problem,
Here I go thinking again…. I can’t escape it– the cry for justice is plastered in the media, and public arenas. Due to recent events as a trial unfolded regarding the life of a young girl cut short through a gruesome series of events, it seems that morality, justice, guilt and innocence are on the minds
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They told me it would be like this. Those two beautiful women who had raised their kids already reached out to some young moms like me, who were far from their own families, and took a day to encourage me in mothering and teach me some of the things they had learned. I soaked up
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I hear it tossed around in Christian circles like pennies in a wishing well. To the person heavy-laden with burdens, grief, fear and doubt there is bestowed on them the best scripture we know that has something to do with them and their situation– or so we think. It’s a beautiful scripture and it goes like this:
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I believe that beauty is an attribute, essence and reality that exists in everything God has created. Beauty is because God is. Some would say that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, but I disagree to that extent that not everyone “sees” beauty, and yet beauty still exists. What seems to mark the difference between those
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Have you ever sat and listened to an inspiring speaker or read a book that just took you away with the wisdom and insight they shared? After sharing the dilemma or crisis they were facing, a good speaker or author will tell you what they concluded from the process. They say things like “I realized’,
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It started with the accordion. I began music lessons in 2nd grade learning to play that portable squeeze box from a man who could polka with the best of ’em. I began to learn notes and how music comes together. I later took piano lessons and found I really loved the instrument, but I really