My morning began with a revelation that led to excited peace . . . I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but I promise it is a real place. The day then blew up into great opportunities that lead to my mind spinning in anticipation. The Right Focus Helps Me Avoid the Rabbit Hole I…
Plans come naturally to me. If you need a plan, I can put one together for you. I put them together for myself on a regular basis – sometimes on a daily basis – partly because I know I need a plan if I’m going to get there and partly because I can put off…
Sometimes I need reminding that it will be okay. I know in my heart that things will work out but I need something outside of self to help reinforce that understanding. I have heard many people say that social media has been destroying the connections that people used to build. For me, social media has…
A little bit of Faith begins to grow up big change in life Just a little bit – that is all it takes to make a big mess or to make a big difference. Just a little bit of nothing piles up into a big mess of nothing that takes a lot more than a…
If things are so good where you are then why bother changing.” The change I need for my life exists for a reason. Discomfort pushes me to move from where I am to where I know I should be. Discontent prods me to step away from this moment into the possibilities of another. I look…
You should never be rude to God. It seems like obvious advice since He is God, after all. And yet, I find myself making the choice to be rude to Him more times than I care to think. Just today, I chose to stay in bed even when I knew that God was waking me….
Change happens – I can be involved and active in its direction, or I can watch from the side as it moves and twists around me. Either way, change still happens. If I want to effect the change of my life, then I MUST show up. I will never have any say in my direction…
The path to encouragement can be easy when things are falling in order. Smiles fill my day when the sun shines, the flowers bloom, and everyone does what I need and expect. The struggle to walk out encouragement arrives about the time someone spills milk all over my new attitude. The times of struggle are…
I know that I can do it – but when I take an honest look at my life then I recognize that despite what I know, I am NOT doing very much. I listened to Bethany share with me about her journey and her incredible trust in God and I was convicted about my not…
He called me a liar, and I turned away with sadness in my heart. I had reached out. I had tried. He had rejected. All that I had left was prayer. And then he attacked my husband and called him incompetent. I shook my head with a heavier heart. We had tried. We had accepted…