Celebrate Your Victory

With a t-shirt! I read through the entire Bible last year with my small group of girlfriends! Some of us read the Bible for the very first time. Others of us read the entire Bible in 365 days for the first time! Whatever the case we did it together and it was difficult, fun, exciting … Continue reading Celebrate Your Victory

The Divine Invitation to Rest: Embracing God’s Example

What would it look like in your imagination to start to immediately walk with Him - all the while dropping your stuff and receiving His rest?

Spoiler alert: God wins

We now live on the west coast of North America, which has so many benefits. New Yearโ€™s Eve culminates at 9 PM EST. Hallelujah! We can celebrate with friends and be asleep by 10 PM Pacific. Itโ€™s fabulous! The difficulty can sometimes be found in spoilers such as the final score on a football game … Continue reading Spoiler alert: God wins

Consume Not Folly

Godโ€™s ways are counterintuitive. โ€Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.โ€โ€ญโ€ญIsaiahโ€ฌ โ€ญ55โ€ฌ:โ€ญ2โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ Iโ€™m participating in a 21-day fast and concentrated prayer season along with my dear man. … Continue reading Consume Not Folly

I Wonder Whatโ€™s Been Stored

โ€All who heard the shepherdsโ€™ story were astonished, but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often.โ€œโ€ญโ€ญLukeโ€ฌ โ€ญ2โ€ฌ:โ€ญ18โ€ฌ-โ€ญ19โ€ฌ โ€ญNLTโ€ฌโ€ฌ I think because itโ€™s the Christmas season and so many of us are writing about Advent scriptures and themes, I have pondered longer this year on the idea of Mary storing … Continue reading I Wonder Whatโ€™s Been Stored

Turn My Eyes Upon Jesus

I read the email Friday morning from Kate Motaung and saw that โ€˜turnโ€™ is her word for us today. Itโ€™s the Five Minute Friday writing prompt for anyone who wants to write along. Come, join us! I read โ€˜turnโ€™, and then my heart began to sing the refrain of this old hymn. Realizing I donโ€™t … Continue reading Turn My Eyes Upon Jesus

Left oversโ€ฆ

Weโ€™re a week beyond Thanksgiving in the US, a holiday of feasts - food, people, football and shopping. Opportunities for indulging our flesh abound. While I believe we have no need to apologize for celebrating the goodness of God, we can certainly agree that we humans have a tendency towards excess, donโ€™t we? One of … Continue reading Left oversโ€ฆ