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What is Love?
This is what a group of 4 to 8 year olds answered when asked, “What does love mean?” “When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that you name is safe in their mouth.” Billy-age 4 “Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of...
When I said, “I do” to God
My love story. I was number 6 of 7 siblings, second to the youngest. I was born and raised in a Catholic family for which I am grateful. I learned at an early age that God is real, He is the creator and He is to be respected. My mother struggled with mental illness...
Choking on Spiritual Food
Scott and I are thrilled to be parents and now grandparents. Watching our family grow and mature is a delight. Even the process of grandbabies progressing from mother’s milk to solid food is a joy. It is no easy task! It takes a lot of effort to learn how to use new...
Tassel Your Christmas!
The God of the Bible is one of celebration! Just look at the Old Testament. Feasts were commanded -- Feasts full of sacrifices, food, music and time spent in celebration. Some feasts lasted days and others weeks. But God called His people to not just celebrate but...
Work Your Manna!
Spoken in a low, monotone voice, “If I hear a knock on my bedroom door (dramatic pause), there better be blood or fire.” Said me, a very tired young mommy. Pointing a finger in the air to emphasis my parental positional authority. Our four young children learned...
Living Lampstands
Living Lampstands A woman was sharing her life story in front of the church auditorium. She shared her heart wrenching journey of losing her one and only child to addiction. She was vulnerable, real and beautiful. She openly invited us into her journey of love,...
Cat In The Hat Theology
Cat In The Hat Theology We have a cascading rock water fountain on our back porch. It’s only 2 feet high but it brings me so much pleasure! I even leave it on when I am in the house, so I can hear the water trickle. It refreshes my soul! There is something about...
The Family Table
In my growing up years, being pouty and not eating dinner with the family was not an option. One day, I was angry because I didn’t get my way. When mom called us to dinner I said I wasn’t hungry and refused to come. And then there was my father’s response, “You...
Make Me Fat!
It was 4th grade but I remember it like yesterday, “If you don’t give me your brownie I won’t be your friend.”Those were the words out of my best friend’s mouth. I loved the school brownies. I loved brownies. I still love brownies! It felt like a war inside, as I...
Keeping the Foxes Away
It was a lovely spring day spent with our grandchildren. I suggested we put the hammocks up in the crab apple tree that is down the hill, by the tall bamboo grass. They looked at me with sober faces and wide eyes as they quietly said, “No Mimi. There are foxes in...
Fire of God!
Do you have a strong desire to be a roaring fire of God?! The Christian writer Oswald Chambers continues to touch thousands of lives almost 100 years since his publications. It has been said, “His life was a well laid fire on which…..the flame of God fell with such...
A Blighted Heart
I love envisioning being part of God’s vineyard. Imagining our Father God the loving, caring master gardener, Jesus The Vine and we, God’s children the branches. (see John 15) In light of that, when I read Psalm 102:4 “My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I...
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