Faith
Learning from Loss
Imagine losing everything. It’s bad enough worrying about losing all my WIPs to a computer crash, but after this past Monday, such anxieties seem pretty small scale. You see, this past Monday, my husband’s sister and her family lost everything in a house fire. Everything but each other. These things happen and we all wonder…
Showing Up
Sometime ago a friend called me. She was freaking out because a friend of hers was having a really rough time. He was at church cleaning, and he’d called her needing to talk. Apparently he was in very bad shape emotionally. She called. “What do I say to him? I’m afraid I’m going to say…
Mid-Week Motivation
Starting Your Day Out Right Scripture/Devotion Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord,not for men. ~Colossians 3:23 No matter what we’re called to do—work a 9 to 5 job, be a housewife, write full time—there are bound to be tasks that crop up that we either dread,…
Mid-Week Motivation
Starting Your Day out Right Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt … you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done.” Matthew 21:21 With summer around the corner, are any of you starting to feel a tad uncomfortable…
Mary or Martha?
“As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She…
The Hike
My son, Nathan, was commenting the other day about his two hamsters. “Mom, they have totally unique personalities. One is calm and likes to be held, the other is wild and always on the go. ” “Just like kids,” I responded. “No two are exactly the same.” Or should I say no “three,” because I…
Lifting Your Hands
© Staci Stallings It’s sad how difficult we make being a Christian. We do it to ourselves and to each other by putting rules and conditions on ourselves once we’re saved. Before we’re saved, we’re told, “You can’t do it. Jesus is your salvation.” After we’re saved, we’re told, “Okay, here’s the rules. You can…
He Doesn’t Care About the Cupcakes
© Staci Stallings I remember that day so very well. I was young – four or five. We did something unusual that day, unusual for my house at least. We made cupcakes. With my mom helping out on our family owned and operated dairy, there wasn’t much time for cupcake-baking. But that day, for whatever…
Experiencing Christ Within
I’ve started on a spiritual journey that has me intrigued and excited. Revolution Within and the companion workbook Experience Christ Within by Dwight Edwards is a fresh look at God’s covenant with his people. I’ve only completed the first chapter which was very indepth and time consuming with tons of scripture references to look up,…
Jesus, Take the Wheel
I’m in a season right now where God is reminding me (on an almost hourly basis) of how very little control of my life I have. You see, as a Type A, that is a very scary and uncomfortable position. I mellowed a bit in my twenties (working full time while going to law school…