I am a self-proclaimed member of the FOMO club. One of my friends shared this with me when describing some people she knew. FOMO stands for the Fear Of Missing Out. At the time I didn’t have the heart to say that I definitely qualified to be a member of that club, if not serve […]
No Fear in Death…What About Disappointment?
The theme of this week has been death. This doesn’t seem all that inappropriate considering it is passion week and the time of year that we especially focus on the events that led up to Jesus being put on the cross. I am okay with remembering His death, and in fact I have determined this […]
Suffering: Hope in our Hands
Suffering takes on so many forms. Some of us know it as a lifelong struggle with anxiety. Some know it as the unexpected loss of a parent or child. Some know it as a blindsided blow from someone they trusted or unexplainable abdominal pain that earns them an overnight hospital stay. Far too many know […]
Some Recent Thoughts on Advent
The last few years it has been my prayer that I would let my heart truly prepare Him room throughout the advent season. With December birthdays aplenty in our family in addition to the usual hustle of Christmas Day preparations, the profound significance of Christmas can easily be lost. As I considered the meaning […]
Be Thou My Vision
“In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.” Prov 16:9 Shortly after my journey through Breast cancer treatment ended in February of 2012, we began another journey of treatment for our daughter’s not-so rare eye condition, Superior Oblique Paresis. At around the age of two we started to notice […]
Tuesday Small
Today is not a Tuesday, but four years ago on this date, it happened to be a Tuesday. I wrote about the significance of the events of that day in a post entitled Divine Appointment. Lately I have been reading a lot about Tuesdays in Emily Freeman’s yet to be released book Simply Tuesday. [only […]
Summer Sorrow
The attitude as a saint to sorrow and difficulty is not to ask that they may be prevented, but to ask that I may preserve the self God created me to be through every fire of sorrow…If you receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people. Oswald Chambers, […]
Face to Face: A Life of Moses Recap
How do you take seven months of rich study, four books of the Bible and one extraordinary life and sum it all up into a few succinct sentences that adequately describe their significance to this day to day journey called life? It is always a challenge to reflect upon my Bible Study Fellowship year and […]
What I Learned in March
I used to think February was the roughest month but I learned that March is a close second for being my least favorite month of the year. It does have the redeeming quality of sometimes hosting Easter. But I have grown extremely weary of the cold here in the Mid-Atlantic (I think that is what […]
Set Apart
There is a question from one of my Bible study lessons that continues to puzzle me. Normally I am content to move on past the stumping questions and onto those that I feel I can provide a solid, scripturally-sound answer. But I believe God was hoping I might wrestle with this one a bit. The […]
What If….
I can say that cancer and suffering give the beautiful gift of perspective. It is the gift you never wanted , the gift wrapped in confusion and brokenness and heartbreak. It’s the gift that strips all your other ideas of living from you completely. The beautiful, ugly raising to the surface of the importance of […]
Focusing on the Milk and Honey
Someone once told me that the early years of parenting are physically exhausting but the next phase takes more of an emotional toll. Well, I think I have entered that next emotionally exhausting phase. It seems that every moment with a now 7 year old, first grader has the potential to be a teachable one. […]
A Prayer of Blessing for the Warrior
This is my prayer today for all the Warriors that are in the midst of the fight, whatever your fight might be.
What I Learned from 2014: Part Three-When God calls you to something, He will be with you.
In my last post, I mentioned Moses questioning God’s call to leadership. Who am I?“ (Ex. 3:11) he asks. “I am slow of speech and tongue.” (Ex 4:10) he argues. The objections, the excuses, I put forth are not much different: “There is too much to manage in my own house.” “I am not […]
What I Learned from 2014: Part Two-Cancer Was My Burning Bush
There is an image I cannot seem to get out of my head. I have read the story in scripture several times in my life and most recently studied this passage as part of the Life of Moses Bible study this year. But it wasn’t until we went to see MOSES at the Sight […]