Do You Want To Get Well?
Several Sundays back I heard a sermon that resonated with me. It was from John 5:1-9. This is the story of the crippled, sick, disabled man. The King James version says a man who was “impotent”, and I urged our pastor NOT to use that description unless he wanted to...
Obedience and Disappointment
I did a study on the book of Jonah once and learned that the book is much more than just a story about a man who was swallowed by a fish. It is rich and deep with lessons and truths from God. There was one lesson that focused on how God can use individuals with...
Emotions
Isn’t it amazing how many emotions we can feel in 24 hours?! Or is it just women who have that ability? What a unique capacity God has put within us – the capacity to feel. Who among us would want to trade away that privilege? Yet at the same time, those very...
Forgivness vs. Reconciliation
Back when I taught Sunday school our class did a study based on Gary Chapman’s, “Love as a Way of Life”. There was a week on forgiveness and let me tell you, I disagreed on so many levels with him on forgiveness that I pretty much just had to rewrite the lesson on...
Love Hurts
Someone posted a quote from someone on Facebook years ago that rolled around in my head for quite some time. The quote was long but basically said that true love doesn’t hurt, that love is the only thing in the world that does not hurt. This immediately didn’t sit...
Thankfulness
A Sunday morning sermon message immediately caught my attention when I read the title, “Being thankful at all times and for all things.” I immediately circled the word “for” and knew I was going to get a little worked up. The key verse that was used was Ephesians...
Are You Always “Safe” In God’s Will?
I’ve done LOTS of hard things in my life but probably the hardest was bringing children into my home to raise who had come from some pretty traumatic backgrounds. When I was about three years into that journey, I found myself in a “hole”. I had checked out. Yes, I...
Lemons To Lemonade
I’m currently taking a class at our local college, I guess because I’m old and still think I can learn new tricks! One of our first assignments was to give a 3–4-minute speech telling the class something about us. Man, how do I fit ANYTHING about myself in 3-4...
Waiting….
Waiting….this is one thing that I am HORRIBLE at. I truly believe that I have some form of ADD. It’s nearly impossible for me to just “wait” for anything. I’m a doer by nature and when I want something, I go make it...
Go. Set. Ready
I need to start out this blog/journal entry with a disclaimer that nearly all of it I'm stealing from a devotional that a friend sent to me that came out of "Draw the Circle: The 40-Day Prayer Challenge" by Mark Batterson. It was given to me at a...
Can People Really Change?
Can people really change? The simple answer is no. This is reaffirmed to me again and again. I LOVE seeing changed lives and I engage in all kinds of activities to try to be the part of witnessing changed lives. What I’m...