A Fresh Encounter

Sometimes in our Christian walk we become apathetic, complacent, or in automaticity.  Status quo seems good enough.  In some cases, we are exhausted or burnt out, so we hesitate to long for much.  Longing brings disappointment. After hearing a great sermon on “A Fresh Encounter With God” by Charles Stanley, I realized how commonplace I…

The Wedding Dance

The Wedding Dance He Speaks: 7 You are a princess,and your feet are graceful    in their sandals.Your thighs are works of art,    each one a jewel;2 your navel is a wine glass    filled to overflowing.Your body is full and slenderlike a bundle of wheat    bound together by lilies.3 Your breasts are like twins    of a deer.4 Your neck is like ivory,    and your eyes sparklelike…

Let No One Separate

“Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”  Mark 10:9 “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.  Matthew 19:6 Before you were married, you were single.  How was that?  Think back.  What did you bring, as a single person, to the…

Disorganized or God-ordained?

Remember all the times you’ve placed something just where you knew you would not forget, and you forgot?  How about when someone does that for you, and you don’t even know they did? God in his infinite wisdom, humor, and timing caused a “happening” over time in my life.  I just had to roll with…

Only You: A Note from Rusty Rustenbach

A Guide for Listening and Inner-Healing Prayer: Meeting God in the Broken Places by Rusty Rustenbach has been a great Bible study to heal broken places and learn to listen to God through quiet time and prayer.  For those of you who purchased the book, I was amazed to find a forum created by Rusty…

The Proposal

“How did he propose to you?” Approaching an anniversary date solicits this question. After 25 years of marriage, I’ve lived long enough to see so many traditions change. A proposal is one tradition that has drastically changed.  When I was a young girl, I would hear stories from the older generation of “the ask” and…

Lie: God Should Fix My Problems

God should fix my problems. In the book, Lies Young Women Believe and the Truth that Sets Them Free by DeMoss and Gresh, “God should fix my problems” was confronted as a lie.  I had to go back and re-read this statement to make sure the wording was right.  If that’s a lie, where have…

Freedom Reigns

I remember my first and only cruise during a celebration of a child’s graduation.  I did not realize that the delicious and decadent food came with the price of the cruise, and you could have as much as you wanted.  I was holding back and worried about the cost.  Once someone told me that it…

I am FREE!

Bondage (noun): slavery; the state of being bound by some external power Lie (noun): An inaccurate or false statement; an impostor; a false statement with deliberate intent to deceive; an inaccurate or false statement I have a dream that all men will be freed from the bondage of the father of lies. Since the beginning…