The sun came up this morning. Did you hear it? A message was woven into the fabric of creation in the moments of it’s birth. Some of creation sings it. Some of creation shouts it, while some of creation whispers it in sounds so quiet that you have to be still to hear it. With […]
One of my favorite quotes used to be “God is never late, but He sure misses a lot of opportunities to be early.” This quote seems to correlate with many realities in my life. “If only He had not allowed…” “I wish I knew then what I know now….” are things I have been known
I don’t know where all the images came from. Some I can pinpoint and some I can’t. Perhaps I had a very creative imagination, but from my earliest child memories come scenarios of fear. These pictures in my mind haunted me from my pre-school years and followed me well into adulthood. I have never
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My husband Jamin and I left the theater where we watched the movie “Blind Side” and I have to say that the movie got me asking questions of life and philosophy. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the story is retold of a white family in Tennessee who becomes become legal guardians of a
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I received the recorded phone message from the principal of the elementary school where my three youngest kids attend that informed me of the school having been in lockdown yesterday due to police activity around the school. I was assured that all of the students were safe and that the event lasted about an hour.
It was going to be an easy procedure. Really, this was no big thing. I mean after all, I had given birth to three kids already in my short life and the pain of those births could never outweigh the slight prick of the needle that would numb the place where my mole was going
A friend of mine, Chuck was wearing a t-shirt he bought on his extended visit to Thailand. On the front the shirt were the words ” Same Same” and on the back of the shirt it read “but different”. It was a curious thought and I pondered it for a few moments when God began
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I’m not sure which ideas in my Christian walk I have wrestled with more than the concept of forgiveness. Growing up in church I’m sure I have heard hundreds of messages on it…each with an idea of how it is done and I found myself struggling to make it a reality in my life. Jesus
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I was at the live recording of Dennis Jernigan’s album “Celebrate Living” in 1995 in Dallas, Texas and the events of the evening impacted me so much that I still carry much of that experience in my life today. There were many precious moments of worship and intimate talks with God throughout that evening. Dennis
There are several reasons why storms occur in our lives. As I mentioned in the previous blog on storms, many of them come to try and test us and build us. Sometimes we are in a storm as a direct consequence of our sin or bad decisions…which was the case with Jonah. Other times our
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