Back in July, I felt August breathing down my neck, urging me to get busy. In years past, August was when all summertime relaxation screeched to a halt for the preparation of home-school lesson plans. And then, school began. The fall …
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Raised on the Oklahoma plains in a storytelling family, Melinda now spins tales from her writer's cave in the coastal South. Her faith-filled fiction illustrates our human story, wrestling with our brokenness and the storms that wreak havoc in our lives.
You max out the credit card. Online gambling is your vice. Tiring of it, you hit Vegas and Reno. You live high. You shoot the dice. You indulge in immorality, charging it all. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, …
Continue Reading →“What a wretched [woman] I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:24 NIV). Rising, my flesh and the old self assert themselves before I am fully conscious. My broken body aches, and my battle-weary soul …
Continue Reading →“What a wretched [woman] I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:24 NIV). Rising, my flesh and the old self assert themselves before I am fully conscious. My broken body aches, and my battle-weary soul …
Continue Reading →Paul wrote of the Olympic competitions: “Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable” (1 Corinthians 9:25 ESV). Since I am an Olympics junkie, it is with great delight …
Continue Reading →I love the Olympics—love the Olympics! Before the event, I read the bios of the athletes. Once they begin, I watch as much as I’m able, get teary-eyed while watching the made-for-TV back stories, and cheer through the competitions. I …
Continue Reading →As a follower of Christ, your testimony is powerful. It is the story of a changed life. You are not what you once were. Your life is in the process of being altered and transformed. You’re being remade into the …
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Romans 8:28 (NASB), “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” This is true. Theologically, we believe it. It’s in the daily nitty-gritty that we …
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“You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay …
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“But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer” (Psalm 38:15 ESV). Waiting is difficult. I should be good at waiting. I have experience. I spent fifty-four months—4 ½ years—being pregnant. …
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