Letting God Write the Lessons in My Retirement Plan Book
When the first bell rings at 7:55, the door swings open, and my seventh graders start streaming in, pulling chairs off the tables, plopping backpacks on the floor, high-fiving one another. I greet them as they come in and they chatter while I take attendance. After...
Don’t Quit & Jump Ship – Hold Tight & Pray
Have you noticed that the older we become, the more our experiences inform our faith and beliefs? As older women, many of us have deep wells of hard-earned wisdom from which we draw. Maybe, like me, you have noticed how the changing political tide has unearthed some...
What Prayer and Swimsuits Have in Common
Swimsuit season is around the corner. Maybe that’s not the opening sentence you’d expect in a blog post about prayer — though wouldn’t it be nice if confessing those extra pounds could remove them as far as the east is from the west? Yeah. Not happening. As I was...
God is Faithful and We Belong to Him
Behold, all souls are mine… Ezekiel 18:4 NIV In one year, six months apart, I nearly died and did die. I survived a pancreatic attack. The doctors came in the hospital and gravely gave me the bad news: “Because of your damaged gallbladder, your pancreas has...
The Power of Purpose
After Daddy left Mama and us kids, Mama had no choice but to get a license, somehow obtain a beat up old car and get a job. She had a focused purpose. That purpose was to provide for and raise those of her brood of seven kids that were still at home. She was focused...
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