One of my eldest son’s paintings One of my writing buds mentioned the other day that when she got the freedom to write, her other artistic endeavors slid to the background. That she found fulfillment in writing. I like that. I used to cross-stitch.I used to scrapbook. Now I tend to make photobooks online.I used to do all kinds of …
Reasons to be Thankful This Year
Praise the LORD. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. Psalm 106:1 I’m a writer (and attorney), so I’m into words and their nuances. So as I started thinking about Thanksgiving last week (yes, a little late to the party!), I went to dictionary.com. Here’s what it gives as a definition for grateful: Adjective:1) …
What’s Your Dream?
What’s your dream? Some days it’s hard to get beyond the day to day to even imagine a dream. Other days our dreams are so overwhelming, they paralyze us. You want me to do what, God? Anyone? We let the days zip by us, feeling empty and purposeless, but don’t take the time to stop and ask why. Wonder if …
Me? A Princess?
One of the other things I’ll teach on this week is coming to a place of understanding our identity in Christ. Have you ever really thought about what it means to be God’s Princess? To really grasp that everything in the fairytales, plus a whole lot of authority is ours by extension of what Christ did for us? It’s a …
What’s Your Word?
This Saturday I’m speaking at a women’s retreat at Harvest Christian Fellowship in North Platte, NE. I’d love to have you join us! But as I was sitting in church yesterday, I started thinking about what I would be talking about. The pastor and I were on the same page, since he was talking about the rocks of remembrance God …
Moments to Soak in…
Some days life stinks. It just does. We’ve all had those. Sometimes it’s a blink. Sometimes it’s a week. Sometimes it’s a season. Other times, life has flashes of hope and days of joy. And others, there are shadows of things to come. I think that’s where I’m sitting. I had a meeting on Monday that looks like a wide-open …
Bible Literacy
This year the kids and I have been starting each morning with devotions. First, we read the day’s devotional from Jesus Calling for Kids. We are really enjoying those and talking about the challenges the author gives in how to live a life that lives with an ear attuned to Christ. Then we turn to the Bible. Last week we …
Are you an Aaron or Joshua, Pt 2
Last Friday, I talked about Aaron. Today I want to turn to Joshua. Exodus 33:11 — jumped out at me again as we’ve worked through Exodus. Here it is: The LORD spoke with Moses face to face, just as a man speaks with his friend. (HOW COOL IS THAT!!!!) Then Moses would return to the camp, but his assistant, the …
Are you an Aaron or a Joshua? Pt 1
The kids and I are getting deeper into Exodus…I’ve felt a real need to study the Exodus and Joshua in particular. A deep need to understand what made Joshua and Caleb so different from the others. This week, we hit the part of Exodus where Moses heads up Mount Sinai so God can give him the Ten Commandments and chapters …
Old Testament Literacy
The kids and I are continuing to work our way through Exodus in the mornings. At a chapter a day it’s slow but steady going. Many of us know the Old Testament Bible stories, but as Sunday School tales. We know the gist but not the guts of the story. Here’s what I mean. We might know that God split …