Prepare The Way
“Let every heart, prepare Him room.†I wonder how many times these words have been sung? How many times have they been written about? And yet I wonder … Have I truly prepared my heart? To ‘prepare’, according to dictionary.com is “to put in proper...
Grab Ahold of That Future Grace
"So think clearly and exercise self-control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world." (1 Peter 1:13, NLT) "Your hope is both a present down payment and a future possession. Like an anchor, your hope goes...
Deep
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Deep. The word needs no dictionary definition. "Deep" ... extending down or across in width. "But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For...
Darkness and Light
It was somewhere early fall, I knew I needed to do an Advent study in order to prepare my heart to be prepared for this Advent season. My heart was feeling heavy, burdened, by the news and world events. There were four hundred years of silence prior to Jesus' birth....
Will you hold the rope?
When you are a part of The Lulu Tree for years, since the beginning of its formation, a mystery takes place in your spirit. The people, the faces, the growth all become personal as the mystery of an attachment begins to root deeply in your heart. A sense of family...
Exodus to Advent
Christmas. It's a time of waiting and activity probably unmatched by any other time of year. Yet it is also a season of preparation. Advent. The time our hearts need to be prepared for Jesus. In her book, Exodus to Advent, author Esther Baird takes us back to the Old...