Inscribed By God
Do I Trust God or My Illusions? I was sitting at the kitchen table along with two of my kids, and the conversation went something like this: Me: What did you guys talk about in church today? Kid 1: Obedience. Me: Oh, that’s wonderful! What did you learn? Kid 2: We should obey God and […]
SMASH YOUR JAR FOR JESUS Recently, I went to an evening church service with a friend. Wow! The worship time was so powerful, and the sweet, amazing presence of God could be felt on a whole new level. During the worship, God asked me a question, “Do you love your fear more than Me?” My […]
GOAT’S SKIN, KING’S ARMOR, AND A SHEPHERD’S TUNIC: DITCH THE COSTUME FOR CONFIDENCE IN GOD-IN-YOU The last post I made, I had intended to compare Jacob and David, however, my fingers decided to write something else! So, here I am at my computer again, and we’ll see what winds up coming out today. As I […]
An Overpriced Bowl of Stew Recently God has been speaking to me about living life like David, not Jacob. As part of my process of better understanding this heart nudge, I went back to Genesis totake a closer look at how Jacob lived. Inevitably, of course, I came to the story of Jacob and Esau […]
STILL WATERS: SANCTUARY OR SOVEREIGN PROTECTION? All my life, I read the following verse from Psalm 23:2 “He leadeth me beside the still waters” and imagined myself in a serene, lush sanctuary where the water barely ripples in the gentle breeze, the sun is perfectly warm against my face, all is quiet around me, and […]
DON’T CLEAN THOSE NETS YET! It was one of those days. Have you ever had one? I was doing a really GREAT job of feeling sorry for myself. I had stepped out, big time for me, and felt like I failed. Instead of chalking it up to experience, picking myself up, and watching the dust […]
Ordinary Yeses with Extraordinary Results I recently developed a five-session seminar for women based upon my book, Gentleness: It’s Not What You Think. As I pondered what type of material I was going to include, I began to think about how living a lifestyle of gentleness is something God has asked us to do, therefore, […]
Contagious, Powerful Kindness In the last post, I talked about growing in grace and extending grace to others which will ultimately cause us to focus on God rather than the imperfections inherent in all of our lives. Springboarding from that, today I want to talk about kindness. Kindness is one of those things that I […]
WhenTruth Says, “Don’t Follow Your Feelings” It hit me out of the blue, and I was completely blindsided. And it was strange, I mean, things were going reasonably well in my world; there were no significant, sudden changes, and yet, there it was. Emotional turmoil. I would have been seriously annoyed if I wasn’t too […]
LOVE SELF-CONTROL PART 2 Last post I talked about how important self-control is, and why instead of dreading it, we should embrace it. Self-control, after all, protects us, our relationships, and helps us achieve our visions and goals. Today, I was thinking about how to get more self-control. Yes, we can absolutely grow in this, […]