10 Ways to Cooperate with Jesus

A friend approached me in tears recently wondering how to go forward after a major loss in ministry due to someone else’s heartbreaking moral failing. This loss tempted my friend to despair and even consider leaving her ministry. Because I’ve experienced my own losses in ministry, my heart remembered the deep-rooted truths that got me […]

The Greatest Perspective Available to Overcome Temptations

  It’s been a lazy summer.  Delightful, easy, carefree and…I don’t want it to end!     With a light schedule and easy days, there has been less temptation toward frustration in the home. I guess that is why I wasn’t prepared for it. I became frustrated and angered very quickly at a situation with […]

Jesus Disrupts and Restores

dis·rupt disˈrəpt/ verb    interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.    drastically alter or destroy the structure of (something).   To say Jesus disrupts might be a bit of an understatement.   But I’ll stick with that because that is was the wordage my husband used this past Sunday […]

The Jesus Ripple Effect

I want beauty in my life. I want it to be in the form of refreshment for myself and others. I want to see Jesus more in my life. I want the Jesus ripple effect. I see it play out in chapter seven of the second book of Corinthians. This beauty and refreshment released in the […]

Trusting in the Name of the Lord Our God

That sweet moment when you’re brought back to gospel sanity. The truth, once again, falls fresh on your heart and mind and you feel like you’ve heard it anew.  Like it is the most amazing fresh insight from God. That it is for sure. You know it must be from God because who longs for […]

When You Think You’ve Been Foolish…

My kids giggle as I read from Proverbs 30. “If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth. For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.” (verses 32-33) I love it when my kids hear something that […]

Mercy Triumphs

I have been enjoying the many layers of beauty in the iris. I fold back petals only to find more. It’s not just the layers of petals that entice me to investigate, but also the incredible detailed handiwork on the petals. Yellow fuzzy lines sit on the middle of each inner petal like sleeping wooly bear caterpillars. […]

Digging to Expose the Abundant Life

I stuck my feet in the sand and she buried them deeper…again.  How many more ways to pass the time could we come up with in the sand volleyball court while waiting for brother’s baseball game to end? I watched the leaves rustle and the tree limbs sway against the wind.  Children were playing all […]

His Care, A Child’s Response

I was a young Christian just beginning to serve the church.  I had just finished teaching my preschool Sunday School class when I saw the commotion.  I went back inside my room because I knew who this child was and what was going on. I knew that she experienced seizures frequently and that her mother was used to handling them. My co-teacher, […]