Mar 26, 2018 | Bible, Faith, Grief, Hope, Jesus, Joy, Life, love, spiritual, trust
I won’t deny it. There’s beauty in every winter snow…… even when it falls in spring. The calendar can’t control its arrival any more than we can. And with world-hushing power, it has a way of uniting all creation under its blanket....
Nov 26, 2016 | Bible, christmas, Doubt, Faith, Family, Grief, Hope, Jesus, Joy, Life, love, making hard decisions, Nativity, peace, trust
It’s funny how a sermon can hit you in an unexpected way……….. cause your mind to wander………… and the next thing you know you’re thinking about what’s sitting on your kitchen counter that very second and how...
Nov 14, 2016 | Doubt, Faith, fear, Grief, Hope, Jesus, love, Marriage, Parenthood, peace, spiritual, storm, trust
Kids often run full speed toward new things. Who wouldn’t want to ride on “moving stairs?” But a lanyard around the neck of a little boy with tiny legs can quickly become an enemy when brought too close to a gap in the moving metal. Before I could...
Oct 30, 2015 | adventure, Bible, Faith, Family, Grief, Hope, Jesus, Joy, Life, love, Marriage, Parenthood, Rest, spiritual, storm, trust
I should have know this penny was special. As I drove to meet a friend for lunch, I couldn’t help but reflect on our life stories and how they had crossed paths at such a difficult time in both of our lives. My son was fighting brain cancer. Her son was fighting...
Jul 2, 2014 | Faith, Family, fear, Grief, Hope, Life, making hard decisions, mission trip, trust
We did a lot of traveling when I was a little girl. Trips from Oklahoma to Pennyslvania. Trips from Pennsylvania to Kentucky. Trips from Kentucky to Oklahoma. My sister and I shared the back seat like two small puppies in a cardboard box. We wrestled for space when we...
Jun 12, 2014 | Faith, fear, Grief, Jesus, Joy, storm, trust
Amy and I had planned to meet for several months. Our only communication had been through Facebook, but we had a bond that ran deep. A bond that doesn’t form from pretty things. One that comes from shared pain. Mutual heartache. Similar sorrow. We both walk the...