With Me

This past Thursday morning started like most normal Thursday mornings. I had been better this week battling for my quiet time with the Lord and, as I closed my Bible a little before 7 am, I felt content that I had heard from Him. The devotional topic was not new or earth-shaking but I had […]

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3/15/2020

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Practicing Fear

Anyone trying to decide what to do next, how to handle a sticky situation, or determine where God might be leading? A couple of weeks ago, a couple of young women we know dropped by the house to catch up and chat. One had just graduated college, the other is preparing to graduate and both […]

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2/19/2020

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Insights in Scripture

~ Meditating and Memorizing ~ Psalm 16:4

Last fall I began to earnestly work on memorizing scripture . . . again. I was better at in college and in the early years of marriage, but with each pregnancy and all the demands of motherhood, I believed the lie that my brain couldn’t handle the discipline any longer. It seems I had an […]

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2/05/2020

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Time Itself & Christmas Decorations

The Christmas decorations are coming down today. I have never left them up for so long. Early in our marriage, it was what I did watching the Rose Bowl Parade on New Year’s Day. While the bowl games played in the background I would pack up the ornaments, lights and nativity sets. It was practically […]

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The New Year’s Mundane Days

This is NOT my New Year’s Eve/Resolution post. This is NOT the post explaining what God is whispering to my soul as one decade ends and another begins. THAT post is most likely coming, but this is NOT it. This post IS intended to encourage you to think about commitments vs. resolutions and change vs. […]

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Preparing for Christmas

What are you doing today to prepare for Christmas? If you are like me, you have a jammed-packed planner overflowing with various lists and spilling over with paper scraps full of reminders and details. Our dining room table cannot currently be eaten off of as it is covered with gifts in various stages of being […]