It’s a quiet morning of day #2 of a New Year. I love everything about this number: 2020. – it rolls off the tongue nicely – has a sweet staccato ring to it…
I’m taking lessons on how to be a better listener. This is my 2019 Christmas gift to Jesus. It’s HARD to be a listener, believe me! I’m wordy. The sound of silence is difficult! Silent-spaces are awkward-spaces in my…
As is my typical morning “habit” (albeit, as cold as it has been that habit has moved more into early afternoon), I go for a brisk walk. Sometimes I’ll listen to a sermon, sometimes I listen to Scripture, or…
When the Lord is about to speak a “change” into my life, He generally prepares my heart in advance. It is kind of Him to do so. He almost always begins the change with a restlessness of spirit. So,…
I guess it’s the prerogative of bloggers to go a different direction when the season dictates such a change, right? It’s been my plan to share a little bit of what I’m learning from the book of Nehemiah, incorporating…
Years ago, we took the youth group from our church in Pagosa Springs to do ministry up in Denver. Come Sunday, we visited a local city-church with our students. That morning, a young woman shared her difficult come-to-Jesus-journey. She’d…
This week a friend challenged me to rethink an aspect of the character of God I’ve held for years. In sweetness, she expressed her disagreement that the Scriptures actually teach the position I’ve held. It’s not a theological game…
Today, I become the mother of a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Military. How that happened, I will never know. I blinked, and my baby boy with humongous brown eyes that stared up at me from the hospital bed…
One week ago this morning, I was sharing my last message on being anchored in hope with the women the Lord brought to Estonia on retreat. I’d nearly lost my voice, ached all over, and ran a low grade fever for…
My father-in-love’s favorite book, written by Watchman Nee, summarized the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. Nee, a Chinese Bible Teacher, was arrested in 1952 on false charges, and imprisoned until his death in 1972. Penned while he languished…