Whether or Not
"... be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage - with great patience and careful instruction." (2 Timothy 4:2, NIV) Be ready in season and out of season. In other words, we should "be ready" whether we feel like it or not. If we do only...
Green Vests & Dreams
Road construction seems to be taking place every road we travel on these days. I can hardly get to my day to day locations without passing trucks and men directing traffic. For the last few weeks, it seemed Jocelyn was more interested in the trucks than in the...
Grow
It’s Friday!!! I’m joining Kate Motaung for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt. Five minutes. No editing. Many of us writing on that same word. Today’s prompt is … Grow. I read the word prompt in my Twitter feed this morning and conversations with...
The Challenge
There was a photo of a beautiful flower on Facebook and she asked, "Does anyone know what this is?" I replied, "A columbine flower." Seemed harmless enough until I then was tagged to do a seven day photo challenge to find beauty out of my door. Now I will be honest,...
Small Is Big
Today I am thinking on the word "small". Most of the definitions included the words, "when compared to {or with}...". We know that comparing ourselves to others is a trap that only leads to us thinking of ourselves as ignorant, insignificant, or incompetent. Sometimes...
The Right Time
In Judges 13: 1-5, we discover the story of Samson. It is interesting, that although the angel of the Lord appeared to her, she is known as "Manoah's wife" and then Samson's mother. Her name is not given to us in these verses. There are times we may feel unnoticed,...