God gave me this last summer, but this is a month for encouraging women and mothers. This is Psalm 86:16, which is one of King David’s psalms: Turn to me and have mercy on me; show Your strength on behalf of Your servant; save me, because I serve You just as my mother did. This is the NIV-UK …
My first grandchild was born last week. 🙂 She’s a precious bit of perfectness and loved by so many on both sides of the family. And yet if you combine all the love that all of us feel for her, it’s nothing compared to the love of God towards her! So I found myself praying …
I sat down to share something that I feel the Lord really wants me to share, and I’m realizing that it’s more than I can/should share in one post. And so, for today, I am focusing on the biggest lesson that is filling my heart right now. If God permits, I’ll share the rest in …
Before three-weeks-ago’s post got hijacked, I was planning on sharing something the Lord has been stirring in me recently. I think everyone in our country is familiar with the sight of Canadian geese flying in formation. We know what it’s like in the fall to look up and see huge Vs moving south. We welcome …
The other day, the kids were talking about the five Love Languages. (These come from Gary Chapman in his book, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts. Their Sunday School teacher had talked about the many aspects of God’s love and human love, and had included a little about these, which my …
Those of you who are new to this blog might end up thinking that I do nothing but quote my sister’s. If so, it’s not true. The last post and this one are the only times I’ve done it. (Well, so far, at least.) But once again, she posted something yesterday that’s so encouraging, I …
My daughter was making a picture the other day. It had a shining man in a robe, standing at the end of a path, a fence with a gate off on one side, a tree with flowers on the other side, three rainbows criss-crossing each other across the sky, and other typical things found in …
I’m sure we’re all familiar with the scripture where Jesus says that we must become like little children to enter the kingdom of heaven… but I have to say that you get a whole new multi-faceted view of this scripture when you have children of your own. My youngest is five, and since she’s the …
Obviously it’s been about five weeks since I wrote last. After a whole winter of praising God that none of my family caught any colds or flus, we had one of each go through the family in the past month. *sigh* So it’s been a bit of a rough month. There’s nothing like getting sick …