The Power of An Encouraging Card
As my bright-eyed grandson bounded down the driveway, I could see a smile reaching from ear to ear. He rushed to the front door where I stood watching. “I got mail!” he cried. He could hardly wait for Grandpa to get inside the door and use the envelope opener to...
How to Create and Treasure Special Connections with Your Family
With the difficulty in gathering together right now with extended family, how are you creating and treasuring special moments with your family? It truly is a challenge, especially across generations. Not meeting face to face create opportunities for ingenuity,...
A Different Kind of Thanksgiving
Planning for Thanksgiving this year may look very different. Depending on the area of the country you live in, perhaps you are limited to the number of people around your table or you are celebrating as usual. If it looks different, how can you approach...
Turning Our Longings Into Hope
What a treat this week to meet by zoom with two of my granddaughters, 7 and 9. I hear a little bit about school, what they are learning and how their day went. However, as soon as I get off the call, I admit, I have a few tears. What I really long for are those...
Waiting on God
When I got up this morning, I checked the news, as I am sure many of you did to see if the outcome of the election had been determined. What an extraordinary week it has been. Most of all though, I feel like I want my focus to be about waiting on God, not the...
God’s Recipe for Overcoming Evil With Good
Instead of feeling helpless or overwhelmed by the world’s evil, I am glad God gives us a recipe to follow for overcoming evil with good. But consider this bit of wisdom: “If your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat. If he is thirsty, give him something to...
Jars of Oil – Finding a Mindset of Abundance in Daily Living
How do I bring more abundance to my daily living? I want to get up each morning with an abundant mindset, yet find that challenging some days. As I go through some days, my scarcity mindset of "I can't do this" or "Will life ever be the same again?" can pop up. How...
Getting to the Quiet to Pray in a Distracted World
I have had the opportunity this last week to talk to several people about prayer. One of the frustrations that several have shared is the challenge of getting to the quiet to pray- the issue of focus when the world is so noisy and distracting right now. How do we...
Gifts COVID 19 Has Brought To Me
Doesn’t that sound strange, the gifts of COVID 19? When it feels like everything is falling apart, how can COVID 19 add anything positive to our lives? I actually had two people remind me this week of the gifts that COVID 19 have brought to my life. Perhaps, you...
Time to Focus on Prayer
As news reaches us this morning of the President and the First Lady both testing positive for COVID, the time to focus on prayer is now. The following scripture can guide us together as we lift our voices in intercession for the First Family, for our country and for...