I’m so excited – it’s my miracle anniversary! It was during this week last year (2023) I was notified about a very important milestone in my writing career: 2 million copies of my Too Blessed to be Stressed series had sold! Inconceivable! (nod to the Princess Bride there) But that’s what miracles are … inconceivable to ...
Near-Misses
I hope you haven’t tired of the incessant grace notes I blog about whenever I can, because I’ve got a doozy for you today. It’ll make you cry and give you God bumps at the same time. I’m doing ’em both as I write this. Now please don’t stop reading before you get to the ...
Shower Caps of Blessings
An offbeat thing happened this week and I’d love to get your feedback. It was a little thing, really, but got me thinking. As a backdrop, you may know I’ve been working on a new devotional for months, and have lately been focused on the topics of healing and restoration. To me, they go hand-in-hand, ...
The God Who Heals
Gonna do something a little different for this week’s post. I received this heart-hugging letter the morning after I shared my Too Blessed to be Stressed message of hope and healing with an awesome group of over 100 BFFs (Blessed Friends Forever) at the historic Franklin (NC) First United Methodist Church a few weeks ago. ...
Hearing That Still Small Voice
Last week at this time I was planning a presentation to a mom’s group in a warm-hearted town in Indiana, a “fur piece” (as we died-in-the-seersucker Southerners are known to say) from my home in central Florida. I had tweaked and edited and honed my message from my new book Too Blessed to be ...
A Mom-entous Occasion
I’m getting ready to launch a new book Sept 1 called Too Blessed to be Stressed for Moms. So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about all the hidden joys (and challenges) that go along with momhood. So isn’t it just like Papa God to drop a wonderful mom-moment of nature right into my lap? I was ...
Sheer Joy
Samuel was born eleven years ago to a couple who were assured he wouldn’t … couldn’t survive. Doctors only thought that because no one ever had.
Diagnosed in utero with a rare and fatal form of dwarfism, Samuel wasn’t expected to live more than one day after birth. His parents, Evelyn and Ralph Mann, were encouraged to abort. And why not? There were only two known cases of children who had made it past infancy – ever. Both were Japanese; one died at age three, the other at seven.
But in facing this horrendous situation where they were offered absolutely no natural hope, Evelyn and Ralph found Papa God’s supernatural hope.