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The words we speak are important in this healing and life-changing process. What is on your mind always comes out of your mouth as a positive or negative verbal expression. My husband and I attended a class on Sunday mornings for seven years called Biblical Principles of Success. This insightful class taught us if we […]
As Easter season is here, I am briefly reminded what a mess I used to be. However, my past doesn’t matter because of the gift and sacrifice God made for you and I. So much to be thankful for, I’m re-posting Freedom to Forgive Yourself. May you receive God’s unconditional love and forgiveness—now forgive yourself. […]
What is the condition of your soil? Do the seeds of truth I speak land on good soil or dry soil? Do my words seem like niceties and fall away by the end of the week, or do you cultivate them with expectation of a harvest in your life? As you continue to feed your […]
Life’s challenges can easily throw us into panic mode. If anxiousness is allowed to visit too long, reacting in haste seems to be the tempting answer—but it’s not. I do not want to make decisions based on fear. Nor do I want to live the consequences of making a wrong decision either. Here is where […]
My future husband held my hand as we walked into the clinic. “9-20-59, 9-20-59” repeated over and over in my head as I checked in. I was only sixteen and had to be seventeen to get an abortion without my parent’s consent. I lied about my age, and they did not ask for identification. The […]
Fear Our Needs Won’t Be Met During my medical leave of absence, I had some serious decisions to make in regards to protecting my health. Quitting my job was one of them. Since we were a two-income family, only having one income was unsettling. The thoughts, “Take heart, take courage and finish the task,” from […]
Starting the last week in April and all through May, I started feeling unexplainable pain in different areas of my body, which even woke me up at night. Was it my port site? Was it the result of the chemo type drug in my system for almost four years? Whatever the cause, I couldn’t make […]
Without a Shadow of a Doubt My next significant awareness that God spoke to my heart was in 1990. Quietly washing the dinner dishes, I heard a gentle voice in my mind just moments before my husband confessed an infatuation with a co-worker. This same caring voice, who five years earlier promised to protect me […]
Finishing the Race 