Today I have spent an incredible amount of time talking with, encouraging and being encouraged with an amazing group of women.  We are each getting ready to undergo a year of stress and worry.  We don’t all live near to each other or know each other that well.  Most of them I had never heard […]

Human fallibility.  We can not escape it. Each and every one of us will fail, grow weak, do something half-heartedly or just give up.  The biggest reason for this is simply because we are all born this way, it’s our curse due to Adam and Eve’s sin.  The other big reason for this is because […]

Yesterday I was doing some research for a piece I’m writing, and one character I wanted to gain more insight on was Mary Magdalen.  I knew (or rather, thought I knew) a couple stories of her from the bible, but other than that, there wasn’t much I knew about this mysterious woman. Let me take […]

Tonight we started one of my favorite books….the book of Ruth.  You see, Ruth is a woman of the bible who I have grown to greatly respect and admire.  She is someone who I would have wanted very much to be BFFs with! Not because we have so much in common or because we’re kindred […]

Today, a year ago, I accepted Jesus as my savior.  It was the most freeing experience and I have been blessed in so many ways since that day.  Life hasn’t been easier, though.  In fact, I’d dare say it’s been harder than I can ever remember it being. There was the extensive confession time I […]

A little bit about myself…because, well, I share things (*wink)…I grew up as an Air Force brat.  What that meant, was every 2-3 years we were moving some place new.  That meant leaving behind everything I had gotten to know, leaving friends (if they hadn’t left already) and getting to know a new place in […]

Today was a pretty average day.  Spent time catching up on laundry, taking kids to school, feeding hungry kids, dealing with moods, trying to tune out annoying sounds, craving adult conversation, picking up crumbs and massaging my neck.  Yep, pretty normal.  I didn’t spend as much time as I should have with God.  I know […]

In my growth I’ve started to realize…or rather, accept… the focus I need to put on my health.  Not just spiritually but also mentally and physically. My emotional state has been all over the charts for years, but especially so these past couple years that it has alarmed even me at times, and my physical […]

So I had an earth shattering realization this evening… Did you know that the quote “God helps those who help themselves” is NOT found in the bible?? I may be alone on this one, but I grew up with the teaching that this “fact” is biblically true.  (Of course I also grew up believing that […]

So about a month ago I was approached with the AWESOME proposal to disciple to a new believer! Being a rather new believer myself and having never discipled to anyone I was pretty nervous and a bit confused as to why in the world I was being asked.  Surely there had to be someone more […]