I heard a political commentator talking about this week’s mid-term election results that continue to show just how intractably divided our populace is… Both the House and Senate are razor thin margins, neither party having a clear-cut mandate. She said,...
A much younger friend wrote this about 6-7 years ago ….I ached to think of her loneliness. I had felt this loneliness for many years when i was a young adult. Then, in my early middle years, I realized God was sending several people for whom I was to BE...
November 12, 2013 Tonight the wind is blowing through the front bedroom addition wall which does not yet have sheetrock and insulation and the false wall with plastic sheeting is crackling in the wind. I’m feeling a little like Lisa Douglas (think:...
I love how our daily lessons in the Word with the Wake -Up Call morning devotional from seedbed.com point to and buld on one another. I didn’t hear writer JD Walt reference seedbed’s graphic representation of the church’s awakening calendar that...
From a personal FB post 11/11/21.. If you are not regularly and consistently reading and applying yourself to the study of God’s Word by which he reveals himself and his will to us, you will not hear him speak to you. If you ARE doing that then you will hear him...
I had received a call from a respected leader asking if I was available to serve on a planning team. I replied I’d be happy to and was told that my name was to be put in nomination for the team. I told the individual that I harbor no illusions about...
On Designer Dogs and Rescue Pets JD Walt’s reflection today in our morning Wake Up Call st seedbed.com on rescue pets led me to remembering the many rescue pets of our family over nearly seven decades of my life ….. and especially those that were part of...
From November 6, 2015…. “Today on my way home from a trip with a student, we made a detour through my family’s hometown, Clayton, AL. I stopped at the cemetery next door to the United Methodist Church there to visit my Daddy’s grave. The...
There was a time in my life, a day, a specific moment when I felt the rejecting and dismissive spirit from some who presumed to judge me without even knowing me. It was truly an experience that felt like an emotional ambush and in my mind I asked God, “What is...
This past week one of our topics in the parenting/re-parenting class for women at Titus 2 was the instruction to teach our children to “suffer well” if we want them to live effectively in a defective world, they must learn this skill and adopt this...
