It’s almost Christmas, and today I’m remembering back to June of 2010, when I began a journey …Â An experience that led me to read my Bible, memorize scripture, and pray every single day. It is something I knew I should have been doing the past 25 years of my Christian life, but for reasons no […]
His Good and Perfect Gifts…
God is in the business of giving good and perfect gifts—gifts I am sometimes unaware I even need. Gifts that surprise me and overwhelm me, that drown me and sink me deep into His great love—His love with skin and flesh on … this, the body of Christ. I know because I have experienced its […]
Relevant
To be relevant in this world is to love as He loves. To see the world through His eyes…with grace and  mercy… beyond ourselves. To be His hands and feet on this earth to one another, To notice the one alone–the one who’s new–the anxious heart present in the room, To really see the need, by […]
…As I Fly to See Friends
I have virtual friends. I’ve found them online, and I often hang on their words. They stretch me and grow me and challenge me and inspire me. And they have little idea who I am. I dream of the conversations we might have. What I’d share with them and what they might say. And before you judge me […]
Over the Top!
I’m still reeling and reveling in my experience this past weekend…a Women of Faith, over-the-top arena event, with thousands of women joined together in worship… To learn, and cry, and laugh, and be inspired together… To sit in the midst of so many who love our God, and to pursue together… The richness of His grace… The redemptive power of […]
Where there is Love
It was a round table where we met…hearts wanting to learn and hearts wanting to share…
The Grace Giver
I still feel it like it was yesterday. Memories sear hearts. She had been my friend. My familiar friend. My close friend. The pain.  Memories still ringing, resonating in the deepest rooms of my heart…in rooms I don’t visit often and where cobwebs reside and where time has run past… But still, aching resides there, echoes of the […]