Blogger Lyli Dunbar mentioned a gratitude challenge last month on Instagram so I decided to accept it. I thought I’d do the daily challenge on social media, but soon discovered finding a picture for each letter for every day might be too much of a challenge for me during November when I also want to…
Because I value all the wisdom Heather Holleman packs into her books, I bought her latest release soon after it hit the market. She and her husband, Ashley, wrote Sent. It sat on my TBR pile for a bit, but then I heard the new song, “Send Me,” which I talked about last week. Sent…
Have you ever wrestled with purpose? I often pray, “Send me,” but do I realize what I’m asking? The song Send Me by Crossroads caused me to pause. They released it earlier this year, but I only heard it last month. Listen to it now while reading the lyrics. Once I whispered, “Send me.” With…
Have you heard about the You Were Seen movement? Karen Kingsbury started this movement in 2019. I had no idea until I received her recent newsletter about it. Now, I want to tell you about it. With the simple act of leaving a note to tell people that they were seen doing a good job…
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the Lord’s blessings of abundant provision? I have. It often happens at the height of gardening season when I’m picking buckets of beans or when I survey my harvest of potatoes and carrots. I wonder how will we eat all this before it spoils? How can I store this?…
Some people think I’m rigid in following instructions. If I haven’t performed a certain task before, I will follow as close as I can. If it is a task that I’ve completed numerous times, I’ll incorporate my own short cuts or whatever. However, some instructions are meant to be followed just as given. God’s instructions…
Did you know that God will take us the long way to a destination to keep us from turning back? While working on some goals, I wonder why it has to take so long. A genie to grant my wishes as I ask seems wonderful. Yet life doesn’t work that way. We have to work…
Centuries pass, but people remain the same. In desperate times, we seek help from an all-powerful Creator, but as soon as the problem disappears, we revert to normal behavior because normal is comfortable and familiar. I’ve been reading about the plagues before the exodus. Pharaoh summoned Moses to pray to the Lord to take away…
No matter what stage I’m in in life, it seems I’m never enough. My plate overruns with abundance of tasks to accomplish. I can’t fathom how anyone can be bored when there is so much demanding time in the day. Never ending battles with guilt When my babies needed constant care, I worried about neglected…
What lasts? Hand prints in the concrete on a freshly poured patio don’t. Hands and feet dipped in paint and pressed on the wall don’t. Even those pressed into ink and onto a page at birth don’t last forever. Those pressed into plaques to be saved even get stored away in boxes, and one day…