Tag: Jesus
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Better
Before I dive into what’s on my heart today, I’m going to put this out there. The season of Lent begins today. 40 days is how long Jesus spent in the wilderness, fasting and being tempted by the devil. Don’t believe me? You can read it for yourself here in Matthew 4:1-11. It’s a season…
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Silly Love Songs
The other day I overheard a few bars of a familiar song. I remember really liking this song back in the day, and now I wanted to hear it. I googled the lyrics “I’m not a perfect…” and before I could finish typing, google filled in the rest for me. I clicked the link to…
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Finite Thinking
I recently did a thing. I resigned my full-time position. To be fair, when I entered back into the work fray after my military retirement, I only wanted a part-time position. Which is what I originally found but then a couple years into things, and a couple of position changes later, it morphed into a…
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Some Day
“Oooh child, things are gonna get easier. Ooooh child things’ll get brighter.” If you know the 1970s song “Ooh Child” sung by The Five Stairsteps, then you, like me, totally sang that opening line. This song has been ruminating around in my head for months. At first glace, it sounds promising. Things are not only…
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Trash Day
Good to the ness, you know you’re holding on too tightly to things when it’s trash day and you cry when they take ALL the trash. That’s where I found myself this morning. I must’ve looked at those trash containers a bazillion times wondering if they’d take all the trash that was put out to…
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Falling Apart
You can do the hard things, but you don’t have to do it reliant on your strength. Wait, what? Lemme ‘splain Lucy. The other day, my son asked if I wanted a hug. I did, but I hesitated for a few seconds. I felt if I went in for the hug, I would lose whatever…
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Show Me The Way
The other day when I turned on the tv, Little House On The Prairie was what popped up on the screen. I can’t say I remember watching too much of this show when it originally aired or even the reruns. But for some reason this one caught my eye. There’s a character named Edwards. I…
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California Roll Style
I came upon a 4-way stop this morning on my way to work. As my car came crept up to the stop sign, I witnessed a truck slow to a crawl, but not come to a complete stop at their designated stop sign. I thought, “Ooooh, look at you just California rolling” through the intersection.…
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Broken Shells
Just over a year ago I was at the beach with a friend I hadn’t seen in years. We had an outstanding time reconnecting! I’m not a huge fan of crowded beaches or hot sand. Since it was February, the sand wasn’t hot, and the South Carolina beach wasn’t crowded. It was perfection in my…
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Rancid Stew
Last night I had a crazy dream….totally sang that! There were a lot of parts to my dream but I want to share the part where I got shot in the leg by someone I didn’t know, or maybe it was just some I didn’t recognize. I stared in disbelief that this person shot me.…
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Just A Girl
“And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her. Luke 1:38 (ESV) If you’ve ever heard the story about the birth of Jesus Christ, then you’re sure to have heard about His earthly mother, Mary. We can really only guess…
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Well Meaning People
I think it’s safe to say we all have that friend that always offers up what you should do because let’s be honest, it’s probably what they’d do. Their solution to your problem is a good fit for them and since your friends it should be a good fit for you too, right? Not necessarily.…
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Escaping Yourself
Have you ever watched the movie “Never Been Kissed”? It’s like a girl’s worst High School nightmare come to life. If I see it’s on TV, I give the remote a rest and settle in. I don’t know how many times I’ve watched it, but I still cringe and say…”Don’t do it, don’t do it,…
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Treasure
Matthew 6:21 says: “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Don’t you just love this time of year! The lights, the decorations, the gatherings of friends and family? It seems just about everywhere you look people are a bit more generous, kinder, happy, and loving. Kids are doing all the extras,…
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In Vain
A couple of women gave a testimony this past Sunday at church. While I couldn’t hear all of it, I believe I heard the words I was meant to hear. Words like disappointment, unbelief, and worry. I call those types of words, heavy. If heavy words are allowed to fester into feelings they will drag…
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Everything I Ever Did
Can I be totally vulnerable and honest about something? Before I was a mom, I was woman, and before I was a woman, I was a child. Shocking, I know. During my formative years I saw a lot of things I shouldn’t have seen. I carried those things into every single relationship I had. I…
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The Choice You Choose
The hard fact of the matter is, you may not like it, you may not agree with it, but it is their body and it is their choice. Please, hear me out. Your right to believe in something does not give you the right to stomp all over someone else’s choice and make them feel…
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There’s More To Your Story
He wanted to die. For whatever reason, life on this side of Heaven is not what he wanted. Maybe it was too big a disappointment. Maybe it was too hard. Maybe it was too painful or maybe, just maybe, it was the separation of his earthly vessel from His Heavenly Creator that caused a cavernous…
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Will You Love Me?
Have you ever tried to “win” someone’s love? You went out of your way to show them you love them by being there, by paying attention to what they like and surprising them with those things? Have you ever dropped everything to go and help them and yet, you get nothing in return? Your pay…
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I gave him permission…
I saw the signs…friends pointed out the signs…I ignored the signs. I wanted him more than those things I thought could be overlooked or in my mind…fixed. Surely he loves me enough to want to change those things, why he even asked me to help him overcome his jealousy. Awww!! How sweet, see, he wants…
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A gift to bring
As a child growing up in a dysfunctional home, I found various things and places to fill the absence of love, to find my happy, to make the world go away. Television became an escape from the reality of all the yuck. I especially loved the Christmas shows that came on once a year. Unlike…
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Broken Bird
Prayer between my Heavenly Father is sometimes frustrating. Some days I feel like…am I asking the right thing, is this too petty, is this too much, is this too little? Other days I just shake my head as I let Him hear my heart and then I go about my day. Then, there’s this prayer…open…
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One
It took one God to create the entire earth into being and everything in it. It took one serpent to entice one woman to eat one fruit from one tree and pass that one fruit to one man to create sin. It took one brother to kill another brother to create murder. It took one…
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Just As I Was
A friend of mine once lovingly told me after I had decided to follow Jesus, “you don’t get to pick and choose what you want to follow, you pick up your cross and you follow Him.” I would like to say after she told me that, I did exactly that, but I didn’t. I’m a…
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Losing My Religion
Maybe it’s not a blog post I need to write. Maybe it’s just putting down all the various thoughts running through my head. I prayed….maybe not the right prayers…I sought…but didn’t really know what I was seeking or who for that matter I was asking these things of. People I was surrounded with called him…
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Stay away from my husband…
Even though it was a voice I had never heard over the phone or ever before for that matter, I knew she was hurt, angry, and territorial despite her trembling voice which gave away the fear behind her words. I was doing something upstairs in my bedroom when my son came in and handed me…
Blessed to be Broken 