My heart is heavy this week so I'm retrieving yet another post from a couple of years ago. Today you can steal a peek into my private journal. I hope you're encouraged by how the Lord responded to my heart's cry... 6/18/13 […]
I'm revisiting the past this week...a post from about one year ago... The million steps to 35 years ago is literally just a few blocks away. I live one street over from a house I grew up in. Sometimes I take my children down that dead-end road. We walk down the gravel road where I […]
Her eyes delighted in the blue egg and her little hands cupped it gingerly. I told her we should leave it where it was and she reluctantly complied. For two weeks she wondered why the mommy didn't come after it and how it fell out of its nest. Every day she ran around to the […]
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 […]
Do you ever foolishly stoop to drink from another fountain than Christ? I do. I feel Him calling me to turn away from my fleshly responses to life and back toward Graceland. Trusting in Him fully in each moment. JESUS is my entire blessedness. Why do I wallow in the world and flesh? I have Him...abundance...in […]
Not too far from my house there is a patch of woods that runs along a bluff overlooking the Missouri River. It's in a place that is quite special to me. To get there you have to enter a cemetery. I grew up not far from this cemetery, so going there is like revisiting my […]
Do you have a dream? I hope you do. God has made you and molded you in your life circumstances for certain gifts, longings, desires and passions. Often times, these stir in our hearts and minds for years and months before we take real steps toward living them out. I've had a longing to write […]
I live in wine country. Grape vines surround this town and some, older than my grandmother, line backyard walkways and fences. I'm familiar with their lush greenery and abundant fruit in the late summer and also their barrenness in the late winter. Do you see beauty in these pictures of the barren grape vine? I do […]
I woke up this Saturday morning to a fresh blanket of snow. By mid-afternoon much of it had melted. With warmer weather moving in, I decided to take a walk with my camera. Just a short walk down a hill and I always come to this. A rock wall and an overlook of the Missouri River. A clear view of the […]
Today was the day we had been waiting for all winter. We spent twenty minutes locating hats, snow pants, the lost boot and the missing glove. We made the trek to our backyard sledding hill (the alley behind our house). I listened intently to each crunching footstep. Last winter, snow was a regular occurrence. Somehow, […]
Advent Joy isn’t shallow or sentimental—it is rooted in the appearing of Christ. When Scripture speaks of Christ being manifested, it means that God has made Himself clearly seen, known, and encountered in order to save. “The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation…” — Titus 2:11, ESV The Child in the manger is the […]
Where do you long for Christ’s Peace to enter your story this week? Or have you given up hope for that? Perhaps it would be good for you and me to remember Jesus' words about the kind of peace He gives. "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the […]