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Category: Faith

  • Joyfully Enduring

    Endurance:  n. 1. The act, quality, or power of withstanding hardship or stress.  2.  The state or fact of persevering: continuing survival. This past weekend I was blessed to hear a sermon about endurance. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to take notes because I’d left my purse, Bible and notebook in the car in my mad…

  • Repeat Offender…Me

    Isn’t it just the way…when you start talking a lot about something, it becomes something big in your life?  Even if it already was a big thing. I’ve been really blessed to share a lot about my story lately.  And a big part of my story is forgiveness.  I can’t overemphasis its importance in my…

  • Not the List I Wanted to Make

    I’ve been feeling all twisted up in knots.  If I could attach a video (which I probably can but honestly the thought of trying to figure out how and trying to look good enough in it kinda twists me up in more knots) you’d see me waving my hands all over the place to symbolize…

  • so yeah…let’s pray

    So yeah… this week. I’ll just give you the highlights otherwise it’ll seem like I’m writing my second book! And I’ll try to keep it funny. Monday – dental fillings….enough said. Tuesday – locked my keys in my car. Oh but I didn’t just lock my keys in the car…nope. I locked my keys AND…

  • My Newest MomLife Today post!

    My Newest MomLife Today post! This month at www.MomLifeToday.com we are dealing with that age-old mommy problem – anger.  Mom’s March MADness!  I know that I struggle with this…it’s so easy to get overwhelmed and feel frustrated.  There are days when fire and smoke spew from my ears and words I’d rather keep to myself spill…

  • Struggling with Struggle

    Struggle I think I use that word too much.  I think I should use a different word more often. Maybe…conquering.  Don’t feel much like a conqueror.  And yet, God tells me I am.  “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”  Romans 9:37  More?  More than conquerors?  Mind-boggling. …

  • Worth

    Recently I began a Bible study with my oldest daughter and a few of her friends. At our first meeting all I had were Bibles and notebooks for the girls, but no Bible study book or even a topic. My prayer going into this study was that God would reveal what these girls most need…

  • Ducks in a Row? Nope…not even in the same pond.

    You know that old saying about getting your ducks in a row? My ducks aren’t in a row…in fact, I’m sure my ducks aren’t even in the same pond. I really want them to be…at least in the same pond. Golly, I don’t care about lines. I was never particularly fond of staying in the…

  • SHARING SOME THOUGHTS ON ROMANCE

    SHARING SOME THOUGHTS ON ROMANCE I’ve been learning a lot about love lately.  Loving my children well.  Loving my friends well.  Loving my family well.  Loving my Lord the best.  And especially how the Lord loves me. When I was looking up verses on love, it was amazing how many times God uses the word…

  • Loved Me Even More

    I wrote this poem when I was serving as a short term missionary at a women’s shelter in Maryland about 22 years ago. (Could I really be that old? That’s nuts!!) God had met me exactly where I was at that time…serving Him and yet struggling with so much. Now, I read it and find…