You are my refuge and my shield; your word is my source of hope. Psalms 119:114 NLT Fair warning, this post is a little long and winding. Yesterday was not a good day for me. My husband was sick with a cold and I was fearful that I would catch it. Feeling congested, exhausted, and …
Continue reading Dropping My Shield, Burying My Treasure, and Putting On My Running Shoes
Starting this post has me typing and rewording and deleting over and over. Even now I’m sitting here watching my cursor blink, formulating the sentence in my head and still not getting it right. LOL. When I titled this post Relationship, I was referring to a common way Christians qualify their faith. We say it’s …
“Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.” Isaiah 55:2 ESV This is the scripture the Holy Spirit gave me to contemplate as I sat reading a …
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14 ESV My well …
I was reading last night, as I do every night, when I read a comment offered to Chloe, the heroine of the story, and it dawned on me that she was an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) like me. Here is the comment: “It will be your lifelong battle to act despite all those fears. But …
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Are you like me? For most of my life I considered myself shy. Doing new things would fill me with anxiety to the point of avoidance. The only way I could go to a new restaurant or attend a party was if I could go with someone familiar. The fear response in me, out of …
Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. Joshua 1:3 ESV Please indulge me as I dedicate this post to my dear friend, Domi, as she leaves for new adventures in London. Dominique means of the Lord, and this is a …
As I pondered this post and what I wanted to share about my journey into discovering what it means to be a Highly Sensitive Person or HSP, I began feeling a bit self-centered. Fortunately, I had the greatest encouragement to shift my focus as our women’s Bible study decided to bring scriptures to pray over …
I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex! Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking. It simply amazes me to think about it! How thoroughly you know me, Lord! Psalms 139:14 TPT One of the traits of being an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) is being sensitive to sounds and smells. This definitely applies to …
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As a young girl I plucked petals from a daisy to determine whether or not a boy liked me. Did you ever do that? Maybe this dates me. I don’t know if the game is still being played in this current generation, but this is the message we’ll ponder today. I promised to take you …
The Far Reaches of Grace 