There are times I wonder what is happening in our world… If my mother were alive, she’d be saying her oft overheard, “The world is going to hell in a hand-basket.” Not sure the meaning behind that sentiment,…
I’ve spent the past week in Isaiah 53. If you haven’t read it recently, do so (no matter how familiar it seems to you). I’ve saved you the time, and linked you to it on Bible Gateway. With…
Welcome to 2021! To be honest, 2021 doesn’t have a much different “feel” to it than 2020; but, last Thursday, we received a defined moment in time at 11:59 PM, to take a deep breath, let all the frustrations…
It’s an unlikely New Year’s Eve passage, the one above… …the story of Anna. (Anna the Prophetess, by Rembrandt) She’s one of the handful of people who recognized JESUS at infancy. I am intrigued by these three verses,…
XXXXX In true 2020 fashion, the lights on our Christmas tree withered over the weeks between the post-Thanksgiving-decorate-for-Christmas-tradition and today. The day after Thanksgiving, I made the mistake of boasting about how pretty our tree looked. Well, not just…
“All the promises of God find their YES in Him…” (2 Corinthians 1:20) This is one of those mornings where I’ve struggled with what to write. Normally, the struggle comes when my mind is completely blank as I’ve…
My mind went time-traveling one morning this week, back to the early 1980’s (which, by the way, seems a lifetime ago). I saw myself sitting in a hospital waiting room. Young wife. Young mom of two. Three days earlier…
“Advent is the season that can remind us God is working while we’re waiting, and we’re really waiting with God.”* -Louie Giglio- *To Giglio’s quote I would add these words, “…we’re really waiting with God, FOR GOD!” I don’t…
TWO SOON-TO-CELEBRATE-HOLY-DAYS: THANKSGIVING Tomorrow!!!! It’s always a favorite holiday, because more than any other time I intentionally focus on the GOOD of all GOD has BLESSED me with in spite of me…in spite of a tragic pandemic, a volatile…
Over last weekend, I began prepping for a few Christmas crafts I’ve been wanting to focus on before the holiday rush hits. This has become one of those pre-Christmas, intentional, non-Jesus-dropping go-to’s over the years. (A few years ago,…