Dancing in the Rain
Can I just say … I am thankful to be rid of 2017! Last year began with pain, frustration, and disappointment. I had just endured shoulder surgery and the recovery was difficult. Pain was my constant companion and adapting to my limitations caused me much frustration. I’m sure that’s why God planted the word grace Read More
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven … A time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. –Ecclesiastes 3:8 Love and hate. War and peace. We crave both love and peace, but often exchange them for hatred and war. Read More
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven … A time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak. –Ecclesiastes 3:7 In Job 1:20 we read these words, “Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell Read More
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven … a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away. – Ecclesiastes 3:4-5 Read More
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven … a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. There have been seasons when the circumstances of my life ebbed and flowed with the lyricism and grace of a well-rehearsed waltz. At other Read More
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven … a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up. The seasons of killing and breaking down could possibly be the most dreaded and feared junctures in life. Death, decay, Read More
This year God has been busy plucking up some old, dead roots and weeds in me—fear, perfectionism, people-pleasing, comfort, control—these are just a few things He’s been painfully plucking up. I know why He’s doing it. He wants to make room for a new area of ministry, but before He can launch the new, He Read More
Seasons, they come and go—winter, spring, summer, fall, single, married, young, old. We welcome the happy seasons, but merely endure the sad and hard ones, begging for change in the midst of that which is difficult. Do you agree that no matter the “season” we face, there is always room for grace and gratitude? In Read More
I’ve tried several times to write this post and each and every time I’ve tried, I get stuck. Stuck because that’s where I’ve been these last five months–stuck, paralyzed, unable to move forward. My sticky place has caused a myriad of issues — bitterness, snappiness, irritability, melancholy, stolen joy, unkindness, worry, doubt, fear. I could Read More
As you know God has been quite busy teaching me about grace this year. He has chosen to take me deeper and deeper into His Word as He and I explore this area together. God reminds me daily that everything about grace flows from a heart that is pure, loving, kind, compassionate, and selfless. The lengths God Read More
