Hardheaded for the Gospel

  Ezekiel 3:9 I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people. This is the scripture I woke up hearing in my mind this morning. I’m also a very visual thinker so the image above is […]

For the Joy Set Before Him

“Simply fixing our gaze upon Jesus, our Prince Leader in the faith, who will also award us the prize. He, for the sake of the joy which lay before Him, patiently endured the cross, looking with contempt upon its shame, and afterwards seated Himself– where He still sits–at the right hand of the throne of […]

Mountain Throwing

“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that […]

Small Victories/All Victories

“Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.”  John 3:2  When I was first paralyzed, I was sitting in my hospital room […]

Leprechauns vs Warriors and The Conquering King

Patrick continues to be my all time favorite historical/Christian figure. Of course Jesus is just in a category all His own but I think you know what I mean.  Patrick, a Romanized Brit, was kidnapped as a teen and enslaved in Ireland for several years. There, in His desperation, He cried out to God. He […]

Blast From the Past: Casual Christian

I was scrolling around on You Tube recently and came across some of my favorite music from my teens.  Some of it made me laugh but a lot of it touched me as much as it did when I first heard it.  I came across DeGarmo and Key‘s music from their album (yes, I said […]

Insights From Italy

We recently took a trip to Italy and met some of my husband’s long, lost relatives. God did so much in such a short time that it is taking me weeks and months to process the work that God did there. Everything you have ever heard about the warmth and openness of the Italian people […]

Just Dust…And How to Find Hope When You’ve Bitten It

Have you ever had those times when you feel like life is a huge truck and you managed to get in its way? The last few years I’ve felt like I just can’t seem to avoid the truck. Every time I mustered the strength to get back up, it was only in time to see […]

How To Move On With Your Life When It Has Crumbled At Your Feet

So maybe you were trucking along with everything going for you when you were sucker punched by life, or maybe it’s been a long string of one thing after another until it seems like there is just nothing left. Either way, this thing that you thought was your life is so dramatically different that you […]

Happy Mother’s Day

I suppose this seems a little belated but as a mom of one grown son, a teenage daughter who minimally tolerates me and a nine year old with Asperger’s Syndrome, I take what I can get whenever I get it.  On “the real” Mother’s Day my Aspie had a notorious melt- down at the restaurant […]