Your Life Is Waiting For You To Let It Happen
Why do we fight so hard to hold on to a life that is far less than what it could be? Old customs, habits and relationships that are stagnant and lifeless, yet we cling to them like worn blankies...
View ArticleWhy Big Conferences and Mega Churches Are Not Enough
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed its’ the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead If there is one thing we are figuring out in the past...
View ArticleIs God Your Hero Or Your Father?
Imagine a little girl, 8 yrs. old, swimming at the beach and suddenly she goes underwater. She’s drowning. A lifeguard runs to save her. He pulls her little body out of the water, rushes her back to...
View ArticleDefining Who You Are
From my study: Becoming Me Through Him… Labels. Maybe the key to becoming me, becoming you, is to face the labels instead of fighting them. Face our weaknesses, faults, sins and past. As I studied the...
View ArticleDon’t Give Up
A piece of what I’ve been working on… Some days the pain is so deep, we can’t see over the edge of it. The day Mary watched her son beaten and crucified had to feel like the absolute end. But the...
View ArticleEmotional Survival Isn’t Living
Galatians 4: 4-7 4 But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. 5 God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as...
View ArticleWhen Prayers Are Not Answered
We pray and plead and hope and trust, yet nothing happens. Or does it? We set our sights on the answer, and only the answer we desire. What if it’s not that simple? What if there is more going on than...
View ArticleFear Sits At Empty Tombs
Don’t let fear keep you sitting in front of an empty tomb, the joy came as they ran to be in His presence. Fear, apprehension and anxiety will keep us stuck in a stale, dead, hopeless place. Jesus...
View ArticleTake Your Stand
Freedom: the condition of being free, the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints. We picture a woman in an abusive marriage or children being freed from trafficking… But...
View ArticleLoneliness Is Not About Being Alone
Loneliness is not about being alone, it’s about not feeling connected. Rest In Peace Robin…you will be missed Robin Williams death has set our thoughts again on the desperate truth of depression and...
View ArticleGet Out Of The Wake
When our kids were teens we had a 17 foot speed boat and took them tubing every summer. It became quite an adventure. What began as a fun family time quickly turned into “combat tubing” which included...
View ArticleLeave Yesterday’s Mistakes Behind
Our past is a huge part of our future…our stories shape us and we become a women of our individual journeys. I don’t believe we can or should leave our stories behind us and think that we can just...
View ArticleWhen the Journey Is Not What We Expected
I look at my life and never could have imagined the journey that brought me to this place in my life. I’m gonna be honest, I didn’t love every twist and turn and re-route along the way. I took some...
View ArticleTrust God
When you’re hurting, feeling alone or facing the trial of your life…He’s there. He never intended you to dance alone. Trust Him. Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out...
View ArticleWhere Am I Going to Church?
I often get asked where I’m going to church, *smile* I’ll get to that. When we left the church in 2000 that we had helped plant in 1996 (let me be completely honest, we were kicked out for disagreeing...
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