Prayer

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Prayer and Gossip

I love to pray. It is such a comfort to me. When I lost my family, my prayer life deepened. I relied on God instead of my parents. Taking the opportunity to pray never meant much because I had the support of my parents. If I could talk to them, even if I did not…

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My Lovely Ladies

At the beginning of the year I joined a women’s bible study. As I signed up, I was apprehensive. My luck with women only Bible studies do not go well. I was spoiled by my old community group women. It was hard to find a group of ladies that measured up. And so with an…

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Faith Like Mary’s

We have started the Advent season, the countdown to Christmas. The ever-present question asked each year, how do you make an old story fresh? Not new but fresh. Ask questions. There’s a Christmas song that came out several years ago that asked something very fresh, “Mary, did you know?” Did she know that she kissed…

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Disappointed

Since June I have been training for a half marathon. Since April I have been trying to get answers about what is wrong with my hip. I can’t move certain ways. Last week while on vacation I got my answers. I am now facing hip surgery. I have struggled with motivation for years. I am…

Photo of the sun peaking through the clouds - Peace comes from the Lord

DISGRACEFUL

For the first time in my life, I am embarrassed to be an American. Okay, that is not exactly true. I am embarrassed by the actions of the parties in Washington. But I’m also embarrassed by the actions of our nation’s citizens. I stand for the freedom we call our own; however, can we not…

Image of a sunbeam over a lake - Let Your Light Shine on me today, Lord

Focusing on What-ifs

Philippians 1:9-10 This is my prayer; that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ. In my devotion, Embraced by Lysa TerKeurest, she used this verse. I underlined…

COFFEE WITH GOD

Psalm 143:8 Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for you I lift up my soul. I love a quiet morning, just me, my dog, my Bible, a cup of coffee and the birds singing to me. My coffee…

Photo of a snowy mountain - Such beauty, I'm screaming at my Mountain about my God.

STRESSED OUT

“Your blood pressure is a little high. Are you under stress?” My doctor recently asked me this question. Let’s see, I drove down 280 in the morning to get to your office. No, no stress there. I had to get completely naked for my exam, no none there either. I know what you are going…

CENSORED

Biting one’s tongue, chewing on the inside of one’s cheek, counting to ten—all of these are a form of censorship. What is your technique? Mine? I have conversations with myself in my head about all the things I want to say. I have been asked why I look angry all the time. I am not…