A short and sweet post this week – because I’m rustling up courage to venture out to enjoy this blasting furnace we call summer just like you are! I want to thank all my BFFs (Blessed Friends Forever) at BayLife Church in Brandon, FL for having me as the speaker at their ultra fun Christmas ...
Aging Grossfully
I keep running across the phrase “aging gracefully” in magazines and posts for us sweetly ripened folks. But isn’t the naked truth that we’re more likely aging grossfully, regardless of how hard we try to gloss over the wrinkles of memory dullness, wit dullness, intellectual dullness, and physical dullness? Let’s face it, my sweetly ripened ...
When It Seems So Obvious
In the middle of some confusing circumstances happening in my life right now, I keep flashing back to a funny story from my childhood. I think Papa God is trying to tell me something. I’m just not sure what. And that’s the whole point. Sometimes we think we have something all figured out … but ...
Blueprint for Joy
Short and sweet post for today .. came to me on my prayer walk this morning. What are your thoughts, dearest BFFs (Blessed Friends Forever)? Blueprint for a life of Jesus-Joy Acknowledge painful losses when they come. And they will. Weep deep. Grieve what could have been. Thank Papa God for all that is. Look ...
To Do or Not To Do
Spouse and I were vegetating through the movie Rocky 3 the other night – don’t ask me why – when an ingenious quote I’d forgotten slid from the lips of the immortal fighter Rocky Balboa and stopped me in my tracks. (Yo, why hasn’t anybody ever written a book called, “Everything I Know, I Learned ...
Grace Upon Grace
When my Selah Book Awards arrived with the mail last week, all I could do was shout, “Hallelujah, Lord, thank You for Your grace!” And then, as I held them in my hands, I remembered just a few short years ago when I thought my author days were over. In fact, I was sure of ...
Secret Things
What do you do when God’s answer is no? When the thing you’ve been earnestly praying about for two long years finally comes to a close and the final outcome feels devastating? How do you continue trusting in Almighty God through bitter disappointment? Tough questions, aren’t they? But they’re questions we all face sooner or later ...
When Your Heart is Exploding
Whoa. It was Friday at 5 o’clock in the morning. The sun wasn’t even blinking her droopy eyes yet. I had spent another long night rotating like a weenie on a spit in my tousled bed (this is not a new thing) and doing what I often do in the sleepless hours of darkness before ...
Look What’s New!
I’m excited to introduce the second Box of Blessings my publisher has just released as a literary companion to Bless Your Heart: Daily Devotions to Warm Your Heart & Feed Your Soul. As you may recall, the first Box of Blessings, released about six months ago, was called “Bless Your Heart: 52 Ways to Bless ...
When Your Sacrifice Crawls Off the Altar
In my daily Bible reading, I recently came across a passage that flashed off the page at me. Don’t you just ADORE IT when they do that? Because it usually means by the clever strobe effect that the Almighty is trying to tell you something, and who wouldn’t want to have a personal conversation with ...