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My Wake-Up Call

Hello friends….

Last week my friend Janet Thompson featured a guest blog on her women to women mentoring site. Each month she has a ” Love your body” feature and the article below was what I wrote for it. I am including it here on my site because there has been overwhelming response, which tells me that we need encouragement, as women, to take care of ourselves. We become expert at taking care of others but might need a dose of encouragement to surrender our bodies and health to God as an...

A Reality Larger Than Our Problems

 

I know a little bit about hard life. Funny how life is not the fairy tale that we women dream about as little girls. Instead it is filled with hardship, disappointments, adjustments, transitions and things that are just plain difficult to get through. I am a woman who knows about:

the pain of an unwanted divorce the challenges, financial and emotional, of being a single parent the harder than expected realities of a remarriage and step family life the fear of a serious diagnosis ( liver di...

My Mother Wasn't Perfect, but She Was Mine

A few days past Mother’s day and I’m still thinking about my mom. She’s been gone for 16 years and not a day goes by without a thought of  her. And, when I think of her, I think of the plan and work of God. Why? Because my mother and I had a very difficult relationship when I was growing up. A relationship that God healed in the end. But, a relationship that buried into my young heart much confusion, rejection, hurt and years of unraveling the pain.

A relationship that left me with the wounds...

My Mother Wasn’t Perfect, but She Was Mine

A few days past Mother’s day and I’m still thinking about my mom. She’s been gone for 16 years and not a day goes by without a thought of  her. And, when I think of her, I think of the plan and work of God. Why? Because my mother and I had a very difficult […]

Leaving Heartprints

Today is important. Why? Because what a mother does today, impacts tomorrow. There is no such thing as a perfect mom, just as there is no such thing as a perfect woman. The woman represented in Proverbs 31 is often looked upon for just the things she did. But, if we read all the way […]

I Timed Her Tears

The grand babies are on a schedule. We have things in a neat little order and somehow they have responded well. On most days. The older one, a little boy just one, talks himself to sleep. But the 5 month old still fusses and cries a bit before she nods off. As women we all […]

Little Reminders of Truth

Easter has come and gone. My house still has the decorations up and I will get to putting away eggs, bunnies and crosses. But for now, I am reminded of new beginnings. Jesus came to give us life, real life, abundant life, full life. That is what the cross was about. He took our place. […]

Easter is an Invitation to New Life

It’s Easter week and all over the country people will dust off their Bibles and flock to local churches where they will find specially planned services. Children will dress up in their Easter best and smile for pictures as they wait for chocolate bunnies and egg hunts. There will be brunches, dinners, leg of lamb […]

Why the fighting?

Do your relationships need a resurrection? Whether it’s marriage, friendship, co-workers or children, God is interested in our relationships. In our interaction with one another we have the opportunity to show the love of Christ in an everyday way. Unfortunately if it were that easy we would all get along and be on a peace […]

Longing for God in the Middle

It’s been a long time since I’ve logged into my blog. Three months to be exact. Twelve weeks and a string of days since I have posted anything.  What do you say when you are just slugging through the grind of  medical issues and frequent discouragement? And, though I haven’t posted a blog, I have […]