When You Need to Move a Mountain
It's not that we don't know how to pray. Prayer is a topic we will never be able to exhaust. Life often throws situations at us when we least expect it, bringing along with it another lesson in prayer. When You Need to Move a Mountain, by Linda Evans Shepherd, is an...
Hold On To The Pattern
My old sewing machine sits in the laundry room for me to see several times a week. With patterns from the companies of Simplicity, Butterick, McCall’s, and Vogue, I was able to make clothes for myself in the fabric of my choosing. Patterns were meant for repeated...
Our Hopeful Obedience
Obedience does not come easily to us. All one needs to do is spend time with a toddler and perhaps take note of how many times one needs to say , “No, noâ€. Trust me it is often! Two quotes crossed my path within a 24 hour period of time. Let me share …...
The Soft Tap
"But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy." (1 Peter 1:15, NLT) I have something against the lying voices that noise our world. They tell you to swap your integrity ... to barter your convictions ... to exchange your devotion....
World
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … World. The word prompt immediately brings back the commentary in my Bible which had been recently read: “Second Thessalonians is primarily a pastoral letter...
The Five-Minute Writing Journal
When I began to blog, it was solely for the purpose of leaving a place where my children and grandchildren could one day read about my thoughts. At the time, I had no idea of the meaningful connections which would lie ahead. The Five Minute Friday linkup is one of my...