Encouragement
Of Car Washes & New Binders
A friend and I were talking. She was telling me how annoyed she got one day last week. The story went like this. Monday was a beautiful day, so she decided to get a car wash. Her white car shone in the bright summer sun—clean down to the white wall tires. She was so proud…
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus…
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Psalm 51: 1-2 NIV I loved playing in the rain when I was a kid. I walked right beside the curb where all the water gathered on its…
The Power of a Conjunction: but
Have you ever thought about the power of a conjunction? A conjunction connects words, phrases, or clauses. It builds bridges between words, pathways linking words that may have otherwise never been united. One of my favorite popular and powerful conjunctions is but. A sentence can skip along in one direction, then with the addition of…
Letting My Baby Go
I remember when we sent our oldest daughter, Laura, off to her first day at public school. Memories of her first seven years at home floated through my mind. The “play times” we’d shared. The times when I was home alone with her, playing baby dolls, and she would stop, look at me with her…
The Value of “Losing”
For me the question of trusting God is not so much a question of whether trusting God works but a question of looking at the stark evidence presented by my own experience of living closely with Him that it does every single time—win or lose. Many people treat God like a vending machine. “I want…
No Time for Doubt
Gina Conroy’s thought provoking poll won’t leave me alone this week. Here’s her Q, followed by three choices: “What is your top writing interruption?” “Job. Family. Procrastination/Self-doubt.” No surprise that over 50% of the votes go to the voices in our head telling us we can’t do it, or that we don’t have time. I…
The gift
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.– I Corinthians 13:1 (NIV) This writing thing is such a blessing. We find our thoughts flow onto the page with little effort most of the time; in fact, we…
Writing for a Future Generation
I have a confession to make. I’ve already made it to God, but now I feel led to share it with you. It’s about writing. The confession is I have become so consumed with writing to please others and get published, I have forgotten why I enjoyed writing in the first place. I began writing because…
Woman
We were supposed to study Adam and Eve in Sunday School. As the teacher, I had been boning up on Genesis and the whole getting thrown out of the garden thing for weeks. I knew the story. I knew about when God came back into the Garden of Eden after the fall, and Adam and…
