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When You’re Not Enough
I sat with a power-house minister. Well, kind of. He’s actually an ordinary, non-ministry degreed man. And he’s my husband. Anyway, a profound thing was happening. My husband was on fire!!! As he...
View ArticleWhy Remorse
Just now, as I took a walk, I saw a twisted piece of plastic on a telephone line. Oddly, it was mangled and wrapped around the phone line in a way that seemed to make no sense. This is how my mind is...
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Tired and Weary
Are you tired of your troubles? Worn by your worries? Do you want to give up? Lately, I’ve been seeking God’s direction. Yet, I haven’t heard clearly from Him. I haven’t gotten the answers I need. The...
View ArticleWhen You Have to Forgive, Again!?
The problem with forgiveness is when you let things go, only to have “that person” go and be offensive again. That’s why I don’t like forgiving. It makes me feel like I am giving someone a green pass...
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When Feelings are Overwhelming
Feelings can be frightening, overwhelming a heart to the point of desperation and misery. Or prisons, entrapping one to past experiences, traumas or memories. Often they become future proclamations,...
View Article3 Ways: Be in Christ & Change your Life
You are inside God’s love. It’s an easy thing to forget, I know. We forget things that we are inside of often. For instance, how often do we think, “I am in the system,” or “I am inside the state of...
View ArticleWhen a Good thing becomes Not-So-Good
Any dream, devoid of Jesus, becomes a nightmare. Any effort, apart from what God inspires, becomes self-defeating work. Any accomplishment, no matter how great it looks, done by performance leaves you...
View ArticleWhen I lost a Little Faith in God
It’s a horrible thing to lose something. I hate it when I can’t find my phone. My husband will be waiting in the car, with the kids buckled in behind him, while I have to “run back in” to find it. I...
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A Note About You
May the words I believe Father God would love to speak to you — may they unshake the deep places of your heart and speak life to you (don’t miss all the verses at the end of it too) … Dear child, You...
View ArticleThe Heart of Christ
If Jesus was to write a note to you, here is what I think He might say: It was a hard fight, but well worth it. I have you now. To pay the price for you, was my honor. To go those lengths for you, was...
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The Power of Our Words
My mom was visiting from another state. Because of this, I had the whole day planned out. We’d take bike rides (she loves biking), via the scenic route and then stop off at a waterside hotel. The day...
View ArticleOnly God Can Change A Heart
I feel convicted. It is easy to read God’s word and to say, “Yep, that thing right there is what I need to do…”. Yet it is quite another thing to do it. It is easy to develop a three-step plan for...
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Mom, You’re Fat
She said (with all the wisdom that 5-years brings a girl): “Mom, how come other moms have bodies that go straight-down? And, you’ve got a body that goes out on the sides? Your back side is big too.” I...
View ArticleIntimate Words from a Father
I love how God wants to speak to us, intimately. Through prayer, I have gotten such a glimpse for his heart for me, for you and for all we are facing. This is how I believe God might want to speak,...
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I Size People Up
When I sat down on my porch, I looked up. A little spider connected to his web was hanging down a little bit over me. Why harm him? He’s just sitting there. He looks dead, anyway… I continued on with...
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How Assumptions Can Injure You
Give. That’s what I do when I meet with people. They ask to meet. I link up with them. And, usually, then they ask me: 1. How to write and get published 2. How they can stop feeling afraid, held...
View ArticleToday, Break the Yoke of Your Bondage
The thing about leaks are – they start slow. I’ve had a roof leak before. Imperceptibly, a bit of water makes its way through your roof. At first, you have no idea it is happening. You see nothing....
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Jesus Saves, Again and Again
I say this sometimes to my kid: “If mommy and daddy had all the kids of the world in front of us, and we had to choose one, we would search and search until we found you. We examine every kid...
View ArticleWhen You are Tired of Waiting
I sat on the curb after practice, wondering, “Is mom ever going to come?” It was a particularly hard high school year. For one, my nose got hit with a field hockey stick. Even today, it sits a little...
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God will Put Everything “Right”
“I don’t know, I don’t have a crystal ball.” I’ve noticed this is a catch-phrase for financial analysts when on TV. They love it. They’re point being, they have no idea what the market will do. No one...
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