My concept of the post I was going to write was different than what I will write today. My title for this post came to me last Friday. I started looking up scripture references on hope, but I wasn’t getting the clear picture. It wasn’t until this morning when I had a Zoom call with …
I have been using Grace & Peace as my complimentary close on my blog for a while, and have used it on my emails for a long time before that. I had wanted to find something that would express more meaning than the usual closings: Sincerely, Best Regards, Love, and the Christian favorite — Yours …
Today, I want to get a head start on what I know is going to happen. How do I know? Because it’s happened before. And, since my 2021 word for the year is Persevere, it’s a safe bet that at some point I will grow weary. There were three areas of my life that God …
There’s a T-shirt I’d like to get with a print of flowers and the scripture about God’s mercies being new every morning. (Lamentations 3:23) not just because it’s pretty, but because I like the reminder. Have you ever felt that you are never going to change? That the problems you are dealing with, or the …
I am constantly amazed by God’s ability to lead me. Many times in my posts I acknowledge how he speaks to me, or brings things to my attention. Which is reassuring since I’m not consistent in giving him my attention. When I do, and follow the thread that is woven through my world, I discover …
Sometimes I don’t want to write what God wants me to write, but it is so obviously orbiting my world. Today, it is about sexual abuse. A week and a half ago I had the opportunity to share part of my story with my writing friends as we are taking one of our meetings each …
With ground breaking on our beach property and a new year to plan for my writing goals, I have so much on my mind. It becomes difficult for me to push past the overwhelm and decide on a direction to progress in. When I sat down to put down on paper what my vision and …
I had an epiphany yesterday. It all started as I sat down determined not to fall into my same routine. I began to journal my thoughts, giving voice to my frustrations between what my life is like and what I wish it were like. As I wrote, a question started forming in my mind, what …
After two days of indulging and knowing today would be more of the same, I mentally chastised myself for being unable to restrain myself. I thought over my year and my attempts to exercise and lose weight, and every other desire of mine to do better and be better, concluding I am unable to do …
Today I faced a situation I was hoping not to have need of facing. After healing from my third back surgery in late July, I started to have increasing pain over the last month. Finally giving in to the reality of it, I made an appointment with my doctor. On my way there this morning …
The Far Reaches of Grace 