Frequently, I am asked these questions: When will your bible studies be up for sale? When is your book going to be published? Where can I buy it? Who’s in control? One thing I’ve learned about this life journey is …
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How do you keep a grip on your truest self? This is the challenge. In chaos and flux, it’s easy to lose yourself. When you’re unsure of yourself and under the scrutiny of likeminded people who want to nudge you …
Continue Reading →Women need one another. Without each other, we shrivel, each feeling all alone in her struggle and ineffective within the body of Christ. God made us all to fit together like a beautiful stone structure—God’s spiritual house (1 Peter 2:4-10). …
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“I was like a stone lying in deep mud, but He that is mighty lifted me up and placed me on top of the wall” (St. Patrick). Usually, I picture Jesus as he must have looked from Peter’s perspective. As …
Continue Reading →“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10 ESV). Sometimes we lose ourselves. This is a tragedy, because there is no one else like …
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In the middle of our earthly Christmas homegoing to visit parental home and family, my spiritual growth feels like a Band-aid over the gaping wound of my sinful nature and my brokenness. Feeling like a fragile fraud, a barely …
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(Six years ago, when I penned this, a school shooting occurred during the Christmas season at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.) This year, I wanted to write about warm Christmas memories and stockings hung by cozy fireplaces, but then …
Continue Reading →Perhaps your Great-Grandma is crazy. If not her, maybe it’s your sister-in-law, your uncle, or your Dad. Holidays bring out the craziness. The stories are legendary. Everyone tiptoes around Grandma, trying not to set her off, whispering about her eccentricities, fixing …
Continue Reading →Today I reached tears again in this publishing journey. For a person who idolizes task completion, this industry is a bear! I write for many varied venues and in several diverse genres. Each segment of the publishing world has dissimilar …
Continue Reading →Eucharisteo! Thanksgiving! Let us give thanks for the simple comforts and pleasures we enjoy, merely by living in this country. Most of our daily blessings are true for all Americans, not all, but most. However, they are not the norm …
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