Note: This was supposed to be last week’s blog entry, but because I couldn’t get connected to internet in Papua New Guinea, it sat in my inbox, and I could never update the blog. So, this is a follow-up…
I was asked the other day (following a discussion on the reliability of Scripture, the need for knowing, searching, hiding, and living the Word-of-the-Lord), this question: Do you worship the Bible, or do you worship the God of the…
In one week I leave for Papua New Guinea, where I’ll be speaking at two back-to-back retreats for Thrive, an organization whose goal is to spoil missionary women. This will be my sixth retreat. I love volunteering, mostly because…
For the past couple of years, these two words have popped up regularly in books, in messages, in blogs, in the Word of God, and, in thought: Pay attention… So I am. I’m paying more attention to God-sightings. I’m…
Years ago, I was challenged to seek the Lord, and, then, to write a mission statement for my life… It came together rather easily as I prayerfully funneled my strengths, spiritual gifts, passions, and Scripture all the way down…
I was wading through Psalm 115 just the other morning. It begins with heart-felt words that I pray often: I truly desire that my life glorify God…it is, after all, the purpose behind my existence (Isaiah 43:7). Psalm 115…
Ever feel like some of the tasks on your to-do list are just…well, daunting… ?????????? Some undertakings are simply difficult in a multitude of ways…even when they are part of some enthusiastic YESES that fit the JOURNEY God has…
As I begin this journey of just saying “YES!” to the right things, and finding my place in this new space of life, I recognize there’s a whole new world of defining words that I have often looked at…
My fingers have been lightly drumming the keyboard for almost 30 minutes. I begin typing, delete, stop, drum some more. It’s not in time to any music. It’s not because there are distractions to bother me. It’s not because…