My Soul Thirsts
Linking with Deidra Riggs and Sandra Heska King, and the Kennedy Adventures
Get Freed Up!
As you know by now Friday with Lisa-Jo Baker and her Five Minute Friday is one of my favorite activities! Today she has challenged us to write about one of my FAVORITE activities - DANCING! I don't think there will be much spiritual wisdom here today. But just to...
Push Through the Pain
“So, did you faint the first time you saw a body cut into?” I asked my surgeon friend. “Almost”, he replied. “The nurses gave me a stool to sit on until I could pull myself together. It was a hysterectomy, and I was in pre-med.” “Now I can cut without a problem...
Hitting the Brick Wall
Are there days when you just need to cry. Nothing is wrong, nothing out of the ordinary, but the need to cry is there. It is like hitting a brick wall that you cannot get past! I do not fully understand why this happens. Perhaps it is hormones, or melancholy, or...
Copper Rose
Tink, tink, tink tink, Boom, Boom! A rhythmic percussion of hammer to copper is heard over sounds of laughter and conversations. Metal heated then pounded into a creation of purpose. The instructor with a long white beard and cowboy hat is holding with tongs the...
How to Lean Correctly
Writing is so very challenging at times. This week I’m feeling great pressure to get my five-minute talk ready for the Proverbs 31 conference. Trying to find one topic that I can teach with meaning, that will bless the listener, whether they like my style or not. So...
Taking a Risk
Where does the apple fall? Not too far from the tree. And where do the flowers grow? In the soil, in which they were planted. Sometimes life seems like it will be what it will be. What was before is now, again. We cook and clean, do the same things, go to the same...
Combating Betrayal
He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their sorrows. Psalms 147:3 Nothing is more devastating than being betrayed by an intimate friend. Someone who knows all our secrets. Someone who shares the same friends and church. Maybe it is something small, like your...
How to Survive the Wait
I hold her in my arms, and she smiles, her laughter is my undoing. Carried in the safety of her mother for the better part of a year, now carried in her arms every six months. Each half-year we will see the doctor, the threat of a disease we never knew existed, and...
When Waiting is Hard
Before Eve, it was God and Adam, walking in the garden together, naming the animals together, and receiving instructions, God to man. God's instructions to Adam were to "cultivate and keep the garden". It was Adam's responsibility under the guidance of God. The...
Worry Like Rocking…
“I didn’t asked to be born!” shouted my teenage daughter from the bedroom. “It’s not fair. Nobody else has to do this!” Good thing you didn’t ask to be born today, I thought to myself. Today the answer would be no, not today. “Well tell God, because He thought it was...
May We Never Walk this Way Again
At the beach this week I'm reading a book about the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, named, Bonhoeffer - pastor, martyr, prophet,spy, by Eric Metaxas. Though it is much more academic that I had intended to read, I am fascinated by how things transpired allowing Hitler to...
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