Teach Us to Pray
This is an edited repost from January 2013 ..... Dear Jesus, how desperately I need to learn to pray. And yet, when I am honest, I know that I often do not even want to pray. I am distracted! I am stubborn! I am self-centered! In your mercy, Jesus, bring my...
Writer
{{Today is Friday!!! It is the day I link with Lisa Jo Baker for Five Minute Friday. Here is how it works…. One word prompt. Five minutes. No editing. Lots of women. We all write on the same word.}} Today's word prompt .... writer. As soon as I saw the word...
Doubts Can Bring Faith
Doubts. We all have them. I have had them over the course of my life. At those times ... how I have wanted to hide them. Deny them. Pretend I didn't have them. But they were there. Doubt has been defined as ... "to be uncertain about; consider questionable or...
Always At Work
I read the words from my devotional .... I am pleased with you, My child. Though you are still a work in progress, you desire for Me to sanctify you - to make you holy. (Jesus Lives, by Sarah Young, page 46) And it hits me.... All God truly wants is this ... that we...
Mended ~ A Journey of Sorts
I recently read Mended by Anna White; a collection of essays, each one written like a personal journal entry. I was drawn to read this book after reading a blog post written by the author in which she explained about kintsugi, the Japanese art of beautiful repair. The...
What Makes a Friend?
Today I am sharing a post from 2012 which I have edited.... One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there. And the power of the Lord was present for him to...