It’s 10:30 on Friday night, when I stand in line to pick up my blog critique, longing to get some feedback to improve. I get to the front of the line just as they announce it’s time for the meeting to re-convene, so I return to my seat at the back of the room. Another hour […]
When You Doubt God is Here {Letters from God}
I am here. And I see. I see the discouragement that seeps in through the cracks of your doubt. The times you question whether you’re able to be used by Me at all. I see how your tired head bends in the dark and longs for more hours in each day. How you stay up in […]
Green Pastures and Still Water
I see the word Lisa-Jo posts last night, as I park the car in the driveway–finally home from a long day at work. The word is afraid. And I love this five-minute-Friday community…a group of women who write from their heart and link-up their words every Friday, with posts based on a one-word prompt given […]
Because He Really Does Satisfy with Long Life
And what a privilege to return home in the late of summer to celebrate her 90th birthday. Her life has not been perfect; in fact it has been full of suffering… An alcoholic father, an interrupted education, marrying young, and having lots of babies… No running water, almost no money, baking from scratch, curing wild […]
For When You Come to a Fork in the Road {How to Pick Your Path}
In my life I’m on a journey with God, one path after another, with Him leading and me following. But sometimes I can’t help but wonder if I’m on the right path. And I often wish I could see what’s around the next couple bends. I dream of where the path is going. I stand at […]
On Finding Life, Righteousness, and Honor
I long to have a full and rich life. To be known as a person of honor and one who does what is right, even when no one is looking. And God wants that for me too. He wants my attitudes and actions to be patterned after His character. He wants me to have […]
For When Your Heart Aches…
Do I really dare to write the ways my heart aches—the ways I feel bare and exposed? How do I give words to the dull underlying feeling that seems to be inevitable in this life? I drive to work as the sun begins to rise, and the song plays. And its refrain undoes me. I ache at the […]
Oh How He Loves Us So {Even in our Troubled and Suffering Days}
I have my share of weary and troubled days–times where I just want to “clock out” and say I’m done. Days when the house is a mess, no one behaves, tasks aren’t getting done, and discouragement sets in like a hovering cloud. Days when every little thing irritates me and I just can’t seem to make […]
Giving Thanks to Him with Song
Music has always been so important to me. I remember being in 3rd grade, driving in the car with my mom, and learning the harmony part to This Land is Your Land. She always sang with me in the car, and it is with her, I practiced training my ear to hear harmony. As I […]
Delighted by the Time Together
Delight. What is it that brings me delight? Of course our marriage we’ve worked so very hard on—one we’ve built with intention and no secrets My children and the joy they bring—even mixed with the hard work, they are a source of great pleasure to me But what brings me the most delight these days—the thing […]
