by rhondaquaney | Feb 16, 2016 | Consilium Community
One ordinary day, I trudged down the stairs from making beds and gathering laundry. I walked past day-old dirty dishes stacked on the kitchen counter while exhaling a not-so-quiet sigh. The sigh that weary mommas everywhere know too well. That’s when I overheard...
by JeanneDamoff | Feb 9, 2016 | Consilium Community
“And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26 My husband gave me opal earrings for Christmas. They’re beautiful, but he chose them for a more significant reason. If you hold an opal to the light, flaming colors...
by Diane W. Bailey | Feb 2, 2016 | Consilium Community
She wears the fall of life as if it came with no burdens at all, but if you look closely, you can see places where she has weathered many hard winters. Yesterday, her daughter and granddaughter boarded a plane that would take them so far away. If she drove night and...
by Sandra Heska King | Jan 25, 2016 | Consilium Community
I pulled out the note and read it again. “Sandy, I love you so much. I pray for you. Please come to me. Please give me hope.” Oh, Sophonie, don’t you know that Jesus is your only hope? I’d considered not going back. We’d had a busy year, and I was feeling my years,...
by Linda Gibbs | Jan 19, 2016 | Consilium Community
I knew something had to change. I wanted nothing more than to live for God and bring Him glory. I prayed for His truth to dwell in my heart and let me live with the joy of the Lord. I put great effort into my spiritual health while ignoring emotional health, not...
by Diane W. Bailey | Jan 14, 2016 | Consilium Community, Consilium Podcast
Deidra is the Author of, Every Little Thing, and the founder of Jumping Tandem. In today’s episode we had some technical difficulty and lost our connection several times, but God is good and we were able to reconnect and finish the podcast. Deidra talks about...