Don’t you just love it when you read a Bible passage you’ve read a hundred times before and suddenly your spiritual eyes are opened and you see an old, old story from a shiny new perspective? (Nod here to my Granny’s fave hymn: “I’ve heard an old, old story, how a Savior came from Glory ...
Had Your Vitamin G Today?
Today I thought I’d share with you a funny story about handling guilt from my book, Fear, Faith, and a Fistful of Chocolate. I know you’re thinking, “How can guilt be funny?” (hey, you should try to write a whole book about fear from a funny perspective. Now THAT’s a challenge.) Anyway, this true story ...
Too Blessed to STAY Stressed
Sure, everyone gets stressed from time to time – these days it’s often from moment to moment – but we don’t have to STAY stressed. Not if we have the right motivation and tools to decom-stress. I was delighted when a faithful reader from Michigan called me a few weeks ago to request that I ...
Rebuilding
After enduring a jarring time of destruction that knocked us off our feet – the past two years for many of us besotted with death, financial loss, fear, political and social unrest, and the spirit of meanness that seems to have swept like a virus across social media – we are now painstakingly rising to ...
Sweet Enemy
It’s that rubber-meets-the-road time of year again for me. Or maybe I should call it the muffintop-meets-waistbasket season. Yup. Time for my get-back-into-your-jeans diet that runs annually from January 1 until Feb 14 (strategically chosen ending date so I can scarf Valentine chocolate!). I started this unpleasant but vital tradition five years ago and although ...
Got Some Winners Here!
Congrats to the three winners of my Palentine Giveaway! These three BFFs (Blessed Friends Forever) will each receive a copy of my hot pink, leather-feel, Valentine edition of my bestselling, Too Blessed to be Stressed: 3-Minute Devotions for Women. And the winners are … are you ready? [Drum roll please] … Shari Kallatch Ginger Sain ...
Where Do You Find Comfort?
I’ve been thinking about comfort this week. Maybe it’s because the startling flash of cold weather at my home in central Florida (translate: below 60, BRRRR!) has prompted me to seek comfort in unfamiliar sources, like cushy socks, a cup of steaming hot chocolate, plush throws, and my fave Florida Gator beanbag microwaved to a ...
Feeding the Love
Last night our weekly neighborhood Women’s Bible Study met in my backyard around a campfire, discussing God’s Word and it’s application to us today through mouthfuls of gooey S’Mores. Yummm. Can’t get much more applicable than that! Since we’re rapidly approaching our annual day celebrating love (Feb. 14), I thought I’d give my Palentines a ...
Saved by Grace at The Show
This week, a wonderful couple from my hometown (Starke, FL), Mr. and Mrs. Barksdale, are celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary. Whoa! Does that give you God bumps like it does me? Just … wowzers. To think two people can stay together, blessing each other and the Lord Almighty who led them together for that long ...
Little Pitchers
Little pitchers have big ears. My granny used to utter those words while shooting pointed shushing signals to my mother with her rounded eyes and squiggling eyebrows when I’d enter a room. All juicy gossip would suddenly cease. Never quite got that old maxim. The meaning was clear, sure, to guard your tongue because little ...