A Christmas Reflection Set To Song
My favorite, most meaningful tradition at Christmas is attending a performance of Handel’s Messiah. His songs come straight from God’s Word and they speak straight to my heart. I’ve chosen one of the...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Resolution – My Prayer for God’s Leading
This morning sipping my coffee, sitting with my legs curled up beneath me in my favorite armchair, I asked God “Lead me.” It hit me – it has been a long time since I voiced those words to the Lord....
View ArticleLove Letter Posts
It’s been 6 weeks since my last blog post and I’m anxious to begin blogging again. Only one topic comes to mind during this Valentine season – love, of course! I’m offering a potpourri – a small...
View ArticleReceive Rest With Gladness
Yesterday around 5:00p.m I plopped down on a kitchen chair, my hands gripping the glass table in front of me, my head drooping and I wanted to weep. I was so tired. I briefly considered going to bed –...
View ArticleTaste and See That the Lord is Good
“Try it, you’ll like it!” My sister and I were both in early elementary school when my cousins discovered that my sister did not like chocolate. These two cousins, both older and wiser, decided this...
View ArticleThe Message of Easter – God Loosens Chains and Sets Us Captives Free (set to...
Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me I once was lost, but now I’m found Was blind, but now I see. Twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved. How...
View ArticleAre You Waiting for God’s Plan to Unfold Now?
Today on the blog we’re taking a small peek at a big question – ‘Why wait?’ Let me be clear, I may be the world’s worst at waiting (ask my hubby). I can’t stand it. I want to make things happen – to...
View ArticleRest Requires You Relinquish Your Load
Do you have a load that you are carrying this week – a burden that is weighing you down? There is one load that I carry every week, and it comes from the grocery store…. Each week I find myself...
View ArticleAct With Courage In The Struggle You’re Facing Today – Even If You Don’t Feel...
Life is not for wimps. Life is hard – there are no turn-offs to ‘The Easy Life’. Yet, somehow I am repeatedly surprised when I wake up to face yet another fear – or challenge – or trouble that I hadn’t...
View ArticleGot Wisdom? A True Story About Finding Wisdom.
I wrote my daughter’s name carefully on the white sheet of paper under the words ‘Prayer Requests’ scribbled at the top of the page. Pausing, I stared down at her name wondering what specific prayer I...
View ArticleIs God Whispering To Your Heart Today?
**Today I’m bringing this one up from the archives – because it happened again, God’s clear whisper to my soul – a small voice of conscience saying ‘Not your way, Sandra’. How I struggle to relinquish...
View ArticleThe Mystery That Moves a Grumbly Heart To Become a Grateful Heart
I love the word ‘grumbly’. It conjures up many images, first off for me, the character of Pooh, in Winnie the Pooh, who was ‘so very rumbly in his tumbly‘. Pooh’s tummy was ever hungry – always...
View ArticleFour Not-So-New Things That Delight Me
1) Questions I’m starting an odd collection, one I’ve never heard collected before. I am starting to collect questions. I save them. Write them down in a special question journal, so I won’t forget....
View ArticleAct With Courage In The Struggle You’re Facing Today – Even If You Don’t Feel...
Life is not for wimps. Life is hard – there are no turn-offs to ‘The Easy Life’. Yet, somehow I am repeatedly surprised when I wake up to face yet another fear – or challenge – or trouble that I hadn’t...
View ArticleDo You Have an Inkling of a Small Step or Move You’re Being Called to in the...
We’re looking at small faith steps on the blog today because the New Year often signals a fork in the road – a pivot point where we reflect and evaluate and make small tweaks and directional changes to...
View ArticleHow is Your Journey Reforming You?
“Remember your journey…that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord.” Micah 6:5 This is the path we’re following today – remembering – looking back at God’s work in us on our life’s journey...
View ArticleThree Things That Matter
EVERY STEP MATTERS. ‘Every step matters’ is my mantra, or word(s), for 2020. I read those words in a Susie Larson book and it resonated head to toe –‘Yes!’. Those 3 words have revisited me – daily....
View ArticleOne Key to King David’s Success That Might Be Just the Thing for Us in Such a...
My daughter called last week and she did the unthinkable – she asked for advice! Does anyone else get it – the enormity of this call? For 20 plus years I’ve given advice, I’ve instructed,...
View ArticleThe Good News of Easter – God Loosens Chains & Sets Us Captives Free
Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me I once was lost, but now I’m found Was blind, but now I see. Twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved. How...
View ArticleThe Road Marked Remembrance
If there is anything the COVID-19 has given me, it’s been time. Its been altered – set down into a new place – life is not the same. Having more time carries a huge weight of responsibility with it....
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