Sometimes I find it so easy to let my “used to be” (you know, the me without God) speak to who I am now.  I wallow in my shame, sadness and loss.  That’s not the greif that God desires for us or that Jesus made possible for us.  Again, that’s the old way and the [...]

I received the following in an email from my mother this morning . . .
The next time you feel like GOD can’t use YOU, just remember…

Noah was a drunk
Abraham was too old
Isaac was a daydreamer
Jacob was a liar
Leah was ugly
Joseph was abused
Moses had a stuttering problem
Gideon was afraid
Sampson had long hair and was a womanizer
Rahab [...]

In 2010 there are a few goals that I have – some are personal and some are God goals.  God has put on my heart and in my mind, “Prayer”.   He has been working on me for a while in this area . . . last year I listened to a series by John Eldredge [...]

Happy New Year!!!   I pray this is an amazing year for you and the people who love you!
I think it’s gonna be a year of new . . .
New thoughts
New friends
New beginnings
Come on, it’s a whole new decade and God’s gonna do some amazing stuff!

Representing God to the world.   Now that’s a task.  I was listening to a message from Francis Chan about grace and he said:
Even though I may say he’s a God of grace, if I don’t represent him and show grace to everyone, I’m giving a distorted picture of God.
When I first heard that statement I [...]

Every once in a while I will share more about me and my family so this becomes more of a community.  Today I want to share about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.  My guess is you have no idea what it really is and it brings Memorial Day Weekend & Jerry Lewis to mind.  After reading this, [...]

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.  – 2 Corinthians 4:8-10
This was the key [...]

I so want to be healed, to process/understand my feelings and how they relate to how I act . . . I’m really good at intellectualizing my feelings instead of feeling them. In some ways, it feels like another new journey.
I’ve been listening to a Michael Knott song lately, “This is [...]

As I think about the different factors that led me off the path God has been showing me it’s easier to speak to the externals (isn’t that always the case?), so I will force myself to deal with the internals first.
The work required towards healing wounds and walking the path God intends can be tiring, [...]