Encouraging Women to Passionately Pursue God
She smiled as she handed me a cup of tea. I had a cold and our nine-year-old daughter insisted on caring for me. “Did you remember a little honey?” I asked. She started to shake her head then stopped. “A little more than a little,” she confessed sheepishly while covering me with a favorite blanket….
Miranda angrily shook her head, eyes flashing as she read the text message on her phone. Are you kidding me? she thought. God doesn’t want me now. She knew her friend on the other side of the words meant well, but really, she’d turned her back on God a long time ago, a lifetime ago,…
End of the day, but not the list, Burnt meal narrowly missed, Pause to pray Piles of laundry, dishes to do, A dear little girl sporting a boo-boo, Pause to pray. Thunderstorms, Electricity out, Repair truck on the long route, Pause to pray. Drop dead tired, the house to clean, Confronted by…
Have you ever felt both happy and sad at the same exact time for the same exact reason? This week, I will drop off our first child at college. I celebrated with her when she read the acceptance letter to her first choice school. I really got excited when her scholarship came through, making the…
Where do you come from? Families created through adoption often witness a teen’s curiosity about their birth parents as they grow up. Who are my birth parents? Where was I born? Under what circumstances? What is my biological heritage? When we become followers of Christ we have a spiritual heritage. The best documentation of it…
Panic seized me as I desperately glanced from the GPS to scan the street signs. The GPS did not know where I was! The connection icon swirled endlessly, indicating not only was I lost, but there was little hope of pinpointing my location anytime soon. That thought terrified me as I followed traffic, frantically searching…
Once upon a time, there was a wise man who set out to do the impossible. He planned to rebuild what had been destroyed. He engaged a king to find him supplies. He journeyed a long distance, taking nothing but faith with him.  He was quite confident in his calling to construct a wall. He had to…
I am so blessed, I get to go to work today! Sierra thought as she jumped from bed minutes before the alarm sounded. Humming happily, she buzzed through her workout and breezed into the shower. Smiling as she shampooed, she thought of how she might create today. Her first commissioned work was foremost on her…
She moved her hand toward the plastered mess on her face. She discovered it was her hair. She gazed about stunned. Unbelievably the sun was shining as though nothing had just happened. Liar! LuAnn stared around at the once pristine beaches now waist-deep in water. She wasn’t sure how far the waves of the tsunami…
Waiting. Forever. Or so it seemed. “God, it’s difficult to do the “right” thing, especially when I don’t see Your mighty hand sweeping away the sadness, the agony, sometimes found in this life.” Silence. Sheila huffed and reached for her beloved Bible. She picked it up tenderly, as the binding sometimes lost pages and the…