When You Need Courage to Say Hello
Today I'm excited to be featured at (in)courage! Hello is a simple word that meets a life-sized need. We've all experienced moments when emotions hold us back, moments we need a little extra courage to do the simple things. I'm sharing a story of how God ministered to my aching heart with a simple act of kindness.
Four Reasons Why Serving Others Can Make You Resentful
Some days I'm a Martha. I can Martha myself into a frenzy, whipping my to-do list like a weapon. That rumpled scrap of paper, filled with both the meaningful and the mundane, feels heavy in my hand. Thinking through the commitments of the week, inward pressure builds, as resentment grates against my good intentions.
Frazzled Mom, Don’t Forget to Enjoy the Journey
The frazzled mom is the distracted mom.
Praying Through the Milestones in Our Kid’s Lives
Every new beginning comes requires end of a familiar trail. In these milestones of transition, it can be hard loosen our fingers, trusting God to guide and protect our children.
Powerful Prayers for God’s Direction for our Children
Prayer for our Children-- Lord, meet them in the decisions and the growing, the choices and the wondering. Bring each precious soul to a certain place—a place certain and confident in your promise and presence.
God’s Powerful Dreams for Our Children Give Direction
There are moments, certain places and times, when God chooses to reveal himself, to unfold a future and a hope. God initiates this dream because He wills to do so, not because Jacob did the right thing.
Powerful Truth Gives Direction to our Children
There is a time in every child’s life that is of strategic importance in the direction they will choose. As a parent, I pray that all of our children will come to a certain place marked by God for revelation and transformation.
Days at Summer’s End
Enjoy the summer moments--the memories, the laughter, and the sun that drenches our days with light and grace. Memories gather like sea shells on the beach. Golden moments with family and friends. Summer jumps with joy of toes in the sand and...
Is Your Soul Out of Sync?
When things are in sync in my life, everything seems to roll along smoothly. Disrupted summer schedules make an easy excuse to skip time to nourish my soul. One day blends into the next day filled with things to do, people to see, and places to go. "Tomorrow, Lord, I'll get to it tomorrow..."