{This image is a gift to you! Please share and use however you want.} As a friend and I closed our phone conversation the other day, she said, “Oh…oh…oh.. I have to ask you something somebody asked me the other day.” She paused for a thoughtful moment and then shot this question through the airwaves. “If you woke up tomorrow to …
Bite of Bread: Don’t forget to Feed Your Spirit
This is a busy week for many of us. We will be busy preparing for Thanksgiving, running around buying turkeys and all the fixings for a bountiful meal. I’ll probably go to the grocery six times before the holiday actually arrives. (I always forget something, get home, and think of another ingredient I need.) Some of us will be cleaning …
Celebrating my Soldier on Veterans Day
I was not going to date one of those soldiers much less marry one! That was my firm stance. After accepting a job teaching middle school Language Arts on a Army post in Texas, I refuted the prophecy of the superintendent hiring me. He predicted I would be a military wife in two years. And he was right. A tall, …
Bite of Bread: Attached to the Vine
Do you ever have days when God tells you to do something, but you really don’t want to? Do you have those days when all is well, but your heart feels heavy, and you don’t know why? Are you sick? Tired? Sick and tired of being sick and tired? Is the mental battle great? Well, my friends, if you answered …
Evidence that God Keeps His Word: The Holy Spirit
She spoke of hearing from God with an assurance I did not have. There was something different about her. Confidence. Peace. Wisdom. And I wanted it. Looking back, I had experienced such grace before, but I didn’t recognize that voice as the Holy Spirit of Jesus inside me–I just thought it was me. But I didn’t walk in the power …