“When obstacles tempt us to give up, God’s Word calls us to give away.” (my New Spirit-Filled Life Bible, p1398. I love that Bible) Christmas is the season of giving. Just writing this blog post is an act of giving on my end. Really. I loathe public opinion. I disdain my own visceral reaction to…
Welcome! Welcome to my writer’s journal, to my journey of faith to follow the God I love in a world I sometimes hate, and to our chance to wander together through this wilderness in search of God’s promises. Welcome to a one-cup of coffee, Sunday afternoon conversation {in 500 words or less} on real life…
What if we shared a vibrantly illustrated read-aloud online? Here. A turning-back-the-pages-of-history book to reveal every foreshadow, every allusion, every personification of Jesus throughout the Torah? An interactive, (videos of a raging Jordan river, anyone? Animated timelines of Jesus’ genealogy?) unfolding of every Jesus moment before your moment? Would you read it? Well, here’s…
Looking for a Good Read? {You’ve stopped at the right place} Each month I hope to compile an ever-growing list of Good Reads, Stories of Hope {found}, & Family traditions. But until those lists overflow with your recommendations {and mine}, I’ll offer up these current Top 10’s. Top 10 Blog Posts of 2013: Grace Like…
What’s your story of Grace? Your tale of Joy, or Peace, or Hope? Have you read a good book? Lived a good life? Experienced a good God? Won’t you be brave enough to tell us all about it? After all… “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou…
I read just one page of the Valley of Vision every morning. Even when I know I won’t have time for more than the words it takes to consume my coffee, I open up this collection of Puritan prayers and devotions to help calm my anxious heart and set my eyes on Jesus. I highly…
This process of narrowing down vision is draining. I started believing I could (and should!) pitch a children’s storybook bible highlighting the life of Jesus before his life in the manger. You know – all the ways Jesus shows up, alive and well, in the Old Testament. But somehow Rahab walked on stage, and then…
And she bound the scarlet cord in her window. Rahab. Her hope stretched thin like the rope the men now shimmied down. This blood-stained cord would be the only sign that remained of their oath. She knew she could trust their God, but could she trust His people? How often have you thought through the…
So I’m casseroling in the kitchen (Yes, it must mean my man is out of town. I rarely cook. And when I do, it’s quite nearly always a one-dish wonder). So I’m casseroling in the kitchen, and all the while drumming up title variations for this thing I’m doing. The teenager had already been messing…
While the writer’s chair sat abandoned, the walls reverberated with silence, and the carpel-tunnel syndrome rested blissfully unprovoked, this distressed Momma’s heart propped its proverbial feet up on the desk and sighed a prayer of relief: Thank you for the fracture from Facebook frenzy Thank you for the pause of every word pleading perfection Thank…
Crossing Jordan 