As a friend and I were processing how God speaks to us through His Word, the Bible, I sensed shame was prevalent within them, so I made this comment:

           “Why would God, who is pure love, offer His only Son, Jesus, for our Redemption, and then spend the rest of our lives sending us condemning emails and letters?”

As I was reading in Acts recently I began to muse about this world changing event in the second chapter.  The disciples were all gathered together in one place and the promised Holy Spirit arrived as a rushing wind and as tongues of fire. Acts 2:4 NIV tells us, “All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.”

Here I am at a bit over four weeks after my surgery. I have been reflecting on the love of my Heavenly Father. He knew I needed this recovery time to face the lies my heart has been believing.

You may hear the same inner voices at times saying things like: …

Being so very generous to us, the ones He created and loves, we can imitate God's generosity with those around us. We can be giving of our time, our resources, our prayers, our comfort, our words, our silence… and whatever else may be needed in the moment.

I had an interesting challenge the other night at my kitchen sink. I was filling up one side of the double sink to wash some dishes in while I began to run the garbage disposal on the other side. Garbage began back flowing into my clean dishwater and then the garbage disposal side began filling and overflowing also. There was a clog somewhere in the pipes below and I had a mess!

As I was scooping dirty water out from both sides of the sink…

I have been a mother for almost 40 years. I had a mother. I have heard and read numerous books and sermons and opinions on the importance of mothers. After being on this earth over 60 years I might think there is nothing new for me to learn about motherhood.

I would be wrong.

I was in the dining room and my husband was in the kitchen. I had just unsuccessfully tried opening the lid on a new container of mustard. While he was in there, I said to him, “I couldn’t get the lid on the mustard opened.”

The celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection is at the end of this month. Knowing that Jesus came to earth because of man’s need for a Savior, I took time to look at the story of man’s fall in the Garden of Eden found in Genesis, chapter three.

According to the Collins Dictionary, the noun, ambition, means an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment.

There are many ways people show what they are ambitious about.