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I Ain't No Angel

"You're an angel from heaven," a friend told me recently. She should only know. "You're a really special person," people tell me sometimes. They should only realize. "You're an incredible person," people tell me fairly regularly. Oh, if they only could see. They see, and hear, of the work that I do. They watch me on the beach with the wheelchair dogs. Or hear me talk about ministering to homeless people. Or learn how I live on a poverty level income so I can fulfill my calling to share the Go...

When God Gives You the Silent Treatment

If you've ever tried to hear from God about a certain subject as much as I've been trying to hear from Him recently about a certain aspect of my ministry, then maybe you know how hard it it is to get the silent treatment in return. Oh, how I have longed to hear from Him. I've prayed, and prayed, and listened, and listened, and prayed some more. And kept my ear, and my heart, wide open to hear His reply. His reply? More silence. And then I wonder. Shouldn't I turn away and just go on with my l...

Is It Time to Let God In?

“The LORD is near to the brokenhearted And saves those who are crushed in spirit.” Psalm 34:18 NASB

One of the biggest challenges I have faced in dealing with almost daily struggles for decades is that I so often felt distant, and separate from the world. I felt alone for years even surrounded by people because my broken heart made me feel different than the world around me.

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It seemed everyone else could go on with their lives and their dream...

Don't Forget to Count THESE Blessings

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ…” Ephesians 1:3 NASB,  underlining added
The day the words flew out of my mouth, “I am one blessed woman,” I was shocked beyond measure. Had I just called myself blessed? With my history, and ongoing struggles, how could I call myself blessed? I had finally come to see that my greatest blessings don’t have anything to do with my circ...

The Girl Who Couldn't Breathe

The girl was pumped up with steroids, hooked up to who knows how many and what kind of hospital machines, and stuck in an ugly gown as she lay in her hospital bed getting every ounce of help she needed to breathe her next breath, and the next one and the next, but she didn't hesitate for a single second to breathe life into me.

Today I breathe into others the breath of life..........I was the one who stood standing in her hospital room, perfectly able to breathe. But this girl who could so eas...

When God Rains on Your Parade

Did you ever notice how God has a way of ruining your plans? Maybe He doesn't do that to you, but I have plenty of experience watching God rain on my parade, so to speak. I just finished writing and sending off to the printer a little publication that is absolutely the very last thing in the world that I would ever dreamed of writing and publishing, but God saw fit to rain on countless plans and dreams of mine through the years. Why? Because He has had plans of His own. Not just any old plans...

Are You Ready to Get Help?

"I am so ashamed of myself," a beloved friend told me over the telephone as we cried together. He shared with me his decision to get help for a long-time struggle, and little did he know how I would respond despite my long-time history of showing judgment and condemnation instead of God's love and mercy.

"Are you kidding me?!" I said as I cried. "Do you know there is not a single person on this earth who does not struggle with something. I'm so proud of you!" I exclaimed.
I could not have been...

Wheelchair Dogs Help One Another - FAITH LESSON

Did you know God tells us in the Bible that we need to bear one another's burdens? Did you know He also tells us that we need to encourage one another? Most importantly of all, we need to love Him and to love one another. Just the other day, I received yet a wonderful lesson and inspiration on this very subject once again from some of the disabled dogs of Walk by Faith Ministry.



While paralyzed dogs Mr. Simeon and Miss Mercy are well adjusted to their wheelchairs and use them quite efficiently...

Are You Still Standing?

I have spent so much of my journey thus far following Jesus stumbling, falling, flailing on the ground, and dragging myself off the ground for just long enough to take a few wobbly steps before falling flat on my face again that I was utterly shocked to discover that for the first time ever I believe I am finally truly standing - not to mention walking.

photo courtesy of public domain pictures via pixabay.comIf you have come to discover as I have that God calls us to walk by faith rather than...

Disabled Dogs Teach Lesson in Endurance

They all could quit so easily, but they don't. As my faith is tested daily in pursuing God's call on my life to preach the Gospel, teach the Bible, write and publish Christian books and online, work with the homeless and other people in need, do streets ministry wherever the Lord calls me, and care for 16 mostly special needs and senior rescued dogs, God uses the dogs to teach me countless lessons - like His ongoing lesson in endurance. Perseverance. Not quitting. Pressing on. Pressing forwar...