I still love my massive, 20 lb, navy blue with gold lettering Webster dictionary. This steadfast dinosaur got me through a thousand college papers. Those were the days before computers (at least before everyone had one.) I think I typed on an electric typewriter, but I must have buried that memory due to the trauma/drama of liquid white-out and typos. It’s fuzzy when …
Obsession Confession
You have no shall have no other gods before me (Exodus 20). Jesus said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37). Confession: I have an obsession The obsession is really quite silly because I know if I try to do it on my own, I will …
Another Doorstep
It seemed a normal day. A routine visit to the doctors during my fifth month of pregnancy. Two weeks earlier my husband of six months had boarded a plane to fight a war. Yes, a war. Yes, you’ve done the math correctly. We conceived a baby 5 minutes after saying “I do.” And I was now a single mom “sort of” …
Earthbound
Wait quietly in My Presence while My thoughts form silently in the depths of your being. Do not try to rush this process, because hurry keeps you earthbound… (Jesus Calling, 276). Hurry keeps us earthbound.Wrong priorities keep us earthbound.Self-pity keeps us earthbound.Worry keeps us earthbound.Religious pride keeps us earthbound.Any pride keeps us earthbound.etc. etc. etc. But Christ died for our …
The Strong, Silent Type
This is what the Sovereign, the Holy One of Israel says, “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.” (Isaiah 30:15). What a powerful verse. When I get all stirred up and bothered, and peace escapes my soul, I need to heed this: Repent from trying to …