Nine years ago you crept in and stole my heart. I knew I’d love you but hardly expected you would utterly melt my heart. Completely, unashamedly. And now you have 2 little brothers and a sister! The day you were born, my role grew from wife, mom, sister, aunt, cousin, and friend to include the …
Faith
What are Your Words Eating?
What do your words say about your child? Are you speaking life or death to their dreams and desires, talents and gifts? Belittling and teasing them or building them up? If God created the universe with a word, does it make sense then to believe there is creative power in our words as well? “Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!” (James 3:5). It’s a ‘little member’ but its power to influence others for good or for evil is far greater than its small size!”
11 Steps to an Olympic Level Life
Did you ever try to push your dream to the next level and, after achieving some success you decided to settle? Halfway through you realized it was going to be harder than you thought and it was going to take more work than you anticipated so you let go? It’s a place we’ve all been …
The God Dare
Have you ever felt it? The tug in your conscience of a really big thing? I mean really big. Bigger than you and virtually impossible to pull off? The still small voice that thunders through your being, grips your heart and won’t let it go? I heard it clear as a bell a couple of years ago. Mike and I had been invited to speak at a big meeting for a homeschool organization. They wanted us to speak about the steps we’d taken to raise our daughter into an adult who’d found her purpose and was living it out. Mike and I talked it over and came up with 15 intentional things we’d done as parents and later that week we spoke at the meeting.
So, the morning after the meeting, there I am stretched out on the floor…..
When God Allows What He Could Prevent
Last Saturday, Mike and I were driving home from Atlanta and as I read the first sentence of an email, I inhaled so sharply at the shocking words I scared my poor husband to death! It was completely involuntary because the news was that difficult. I sat there stunned and heartbroken at the words not even knowing how to respond. I have no touchstone for this. I thought I knew God’s ways but I don’t understand how this happened. There was so much prayer and faith, and belief.