If someone offered a penny for your thoughts, would it be worth it? Have you thought about what you think about? The Scripture that gets me safely through the day is a beautiful guideline to tame our mind, Philippians 4:8; Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable, right and pure, lovely and admirable. Think about … [Read more...]
Write Right Now
In the past few weeks I’ve spoken to a few writer-friends about the upcoming conference in our area. It wasn’t surprising to hear that some were feeling that they didn’t have anything valuable to offer and identified their work as just a keepsake for the family. I understand, I felt that way once. Writing matters. One … [Read more...]
The Art of Rest
How's your summer so far? One glance at my July-August calendar and I was frustrated - it didn’t look much different from the months before or the months ahead. How does it get like this? I thought summer was designed to be a more restful season when we look forward to a time-out – so I made some intentional (new buzz word, … [Read more...]
Shipwrecks and Snakebites
Faith is a journey. There’s been times when my journey seemed like a series of shipwrecks and snakebites navigating from one place to the next. Maybe for you, too. In Acts 27 and 28, it tells a little of what the apostle Paul experienced while walking (and swimming) his faith journey across land and sea. It all began way … [Read more...]
The Abiding Mom
I was privileged to speak this past weekend to a special group of ladies at a Mother Daughter Brunch. Every table filled with moms, grammas, aunts, sisters, daughters – women of all titles were differently the same. Some were busy young moms of toddlers, not-so-young busy moms of teens, some single moms, working moms trying to … [Read more...]
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