Thanks for joining me here. We will be laying a foundation this week for strategies that will be with us our entire lives. I encourage you to read the blog posts and do the activities. Ask questions and interact with one another in the comment section. I know this works. If we are going to…
Read moreWe Get to Choose – Step 1
When life slams a trial in your face, when circumstances spin in a direction that you never expected and didn’t see coming, what choice will you make? What choice will I make? I was at the “Happiest Place on Earth,” enjoying three days in Disneyland with my daughter. Hard to believe that was only a…
Read moreGot Patience? :-D
I live on one side of a canyon. To get from civilization to my home…or from my home to civilization, I have to drive this canyon road. Any number of logging trucks, gravel trucks, trucks pulling horse trailers or cautious (read: slow) drivers of cars use this road on any given day. Invariably, I have…
Read moreGod is ENOUGH…or IS He?
Previously, I shared how God has used My One Word–ENOUGH–to convict my heart about spending, eating, talking and other behaviors I am prone to take to excess! If I am honest, I am not horribly excited about this process. It means saying no to myself a lot. I know I am in for a transformative…
Read moreMy iPad is a Mirror
Have you ever woken up, stumbled into your bathroom, taken a gander at your image reflected in the mirror and been aghast? It might be a hair growing out of your face that is NOT supposed to be there (just being honest) :-), an obtrusive red blemish (I can’t stand using the “P” word!). Or…
Read moreEnough! – 3 Reasons *Not* to Make New Year’s Resolutions!
(And what to do instead…) ENOUGH with promises made over the years and not kept. ENOUGH with being “cute” and clever: “I have made one resolution…and that is never to make a resolution!” And yes, I have kept that resolution! ENOUGH with flippancy. God issues an invitation. Here. Now. Each day. He invites us to…
Read moreOne Wonderful Reason to Rejoice
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us). ~ Matthew 1:23 A parenthetical statement…yet so precious to me this Christmas. When my heart aches because those I love are physically or emotionally distant…or have even passed away…I can find encouragement in the…
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My Father’s Eyes
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:18,19 is a precious passage to me. God has used it to speak to me…
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