Penance Can you think of a habit or struggle you’ve had longer than you’d like? One of those insidious ones that you think you’ve eradicated but then it pops up like an overgrown root under a sidewalk. Suddenly you are face down, knees and palms bloodied, wondering how you could have ended up there again? …
“Ok, that was the longest switchback! Just four more to go,” Hikemaster Laura said to our little group of Midwesterners from the flattest of the flatlands. It was day two at Rocky Mountain National Park, and I was about 400 vertical feet from our lofty 10,200 ft mountain lake destination called the Loch. I felt …
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Editing My Journal Today I decided to give an old devotional journal new life by removing the twenty pages at the beginning that were preventing me from using it as my next journal. This particular journal I want to reuse held some thoughts and prayers from a time period in my life that was incredibly …
Fighting for Your Portion in Life Let’s say that you attend a birthday party with 50 people, but one teeny tiny cake. Your portion of the cake (if you get any) will be pretty small, right? Even if you jump the line or jockey for position, you are probably in for a piddly portion. What …
Doors and Windows At some point in your life you have had a proverbial door slam shut in your face. Maybe it was a promotion you thought would be yours…that wasn’t, or an adoption that fell through in the eleventh hour, or betrayal in a close relationship that blindsided you. You probably heard the common …
A Trip Down Memory Lane – with Cassettes! When I was a little girl, my family took a lot of car trips across the country. I always loved it when my grandparents would come along. My grandma was quite a character. She was full of pizzaz and seemingly endlessly childlike joy. Her short bleached blonde …
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Contingency plans. Everyone has them. No one wants to use them. Depending on your personality you either take great care in creating yours, or your contingency plan consists of an “I’ll just wing it when I get there” attitude. Either way, we all make plans. My good friend and Christian writer / prepper, Michaylah Malone, …
The Glory of the Lord Have you ever thought about why Moses hid his face from the people after it glowed from talking face to face with God? How amazing it must have been to see Moses’s face reflecting the glory of the Lord! A conversation might have gone like this in the camp… “Hey, …
Forgiveness, it’s not an easy topic. Usually, we want to take the high road and be a person who forgives. But when it comes down to making the choice to forgive, we’d rather take the off roads, back roads, and detours around the actual process of forgiveness. Why is that? Wounding and Culpability Wounding. Sometimes …
What does erasing a whiteboard have to do with grace and forgiveness? Find out as you read a sneak peek of my juvenile fiction novella. What you need to know before reading… It’s a work in progress, so I’ll need some grace. 🙂 But as I was editing this week, I felt like I should …
