Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. ~ Psalm 143:8 This morning, I woke up and said a prayer of thanks for the love of my life and the […]
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Philippians 4:8-9 Fill your day today with powerful thoughts, with freeing thoughts, with loving thoughts. Say a prayer of thanks, take a deep breath. Step outside, look up at the sky and smile…. And think about such things as these… Whatever is true, “If we once learn how to apply this never failing test of […]
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In a recent bible study, we were asked to come up with an analogy to describe our lives. For example, life is like a roller coaster – ups, downs, dizzying turns, etc. Initially, I had a hard time with this one. Everything sounded so cliched and forced. My family has always said if there wasn’t […]
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Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.~ Jeremiah 33:3 I can hardly recount the number of times over the last several years when I found myself desperately scanning the bible, searching for that perfect, written-just-for-me scripture that would assure me I would get pregnant that […]
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At the beginning of the summer, Josh and I took a much needed vacation to Orlando, Florida. According to fertility folklore, that means I should already be about 8 weeks pregnant. Alas, no. We’d been planning and paying for this vacation since January and it was just as wonderful as we’d hoped it would be. […]
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Luke 8: 43-48 A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding, and she could find no cure. Coming up behind Jesus, she touched the fringe of his robe. Immediately, the bleeding stopped. “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. Everyone denied it, and Peter said,” Master, this whole crowd is pressing up […]
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Be still and know that I am God. ~Psalm 46:10 Remember being little, when we were always being told to be quiet and sit still? My dad is a minister. And when I was younger, my dad would preach and my mom would play the organ during church services. That left me and my brother […]
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“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” ~ 1John 4:18 What are you afraid of? Isolation? Public speaking? Social situations? I used to have a pretty big fear of heights. I know it’s a pretty common fear, […]
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I got busted singing in my car. It really isn’t anything new. I mean, I sing in my car all the time. But this time, I was using my 20 oz Dr. Pepper bottle as a microphone, window down, Mariah Carey style hand motions with the arpeggios, big smile on my face and signing at […]
Continue readingThe First Day
God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’ And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. ~ Genesis 1:5 The first day. How many memorable first days do we go through in our lives? Today is the first day of the rest of our lives. I’ve seen that phrase on […]
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