There was a question asked in one of my recent Bible study lessons that involved the word “captivated”. The word actually stopped me in my tracks. It was as if I was captivated by the word captivated. I desired to understand the word more fully so that I might discern if it in any way […]
I Vote for Heaven: A Tribute to Mary
Today I woke up longing for heaven. There are many days lately that I do, especially after last year’s study of the book of Revelation. The sparkling of precious stones all around…the wiping of every tear…the old order of things passing away…the One on the throne taking His rightful place. And everyone testifying to it. […]
He Knows Me
July was extraordinary. Of course, it already had some advantages being that it is summer and have I ever said how much I. LOVE. SUMMER?! Five years ago my love for summer was threatened by some hard news, the start of a rough road, and a canceled vacation. The summers since then haven’t always been easy either. […]
A Day to Grieve {A 5 Year Anniversary RePost}
One of my absolute favorite things are photos. I can be a kinda annoying about it but I have found that it is my way (sometimes my only way) of remembering a moment in time. There are so many great moments in life that I want to remember. I want to remember the joy I […]
Divine Appointment {A 5 Year Anniversary RePost}
From an article originally posted on 7/27/11…. My mammogram/sonogram was scheduled for 8:30 am and I left the house with plenty of time to get to AAMC. Blake would be leaving the house shortly after me for work so my mom was coming to watch the kids. But of course when living in Arnold and […]
Reminders From The Ceiling Tiles
Lately I have been reading Dr David Jeremiah and looking up at a few of these again. These two things take me back to a very unsettling time. Dr David Jeremiah’s book When Your World Falls Apart (along with Jesus Calling) is what I ran to in the desperate days when I first learned of […]
The Greatest Invitation Ever: A Revelation Recap
I am a self-proclaimed member of the FOMO club. One of my friends shared this with me when describing some people she knew. FOMO stands for the Fear Of Missing Out. At the time I didn’t have the heart to say that I definitely qualified to be a member of that club, if not serve […]
No Fear in Death…What About Disappointment?
The theme of this week has been death. This doesn’t seem all that inappropriate considering it is passion week and the time of year that we especially focus on the events that led up to Jesus being put on the cross. I am okay with remembering His death, and in fact I have determined this […]
Suffering: Hope in our Hands
Suffering takes on so many forms. Some of us know it as a lifelong struggle with anxiety. Some know it as the unexpected loss of a parent or child. Some know it as a blindsided blow from someone they trusted or unexplainable abdominal pain that earns them an overnight hospital stay. Far too many know […]
Some Recent Thoughts on Advent
The last few years it has been my prayer that I would let my heart truly prepare Him room throughout the advent season. With December birthdays aplenty in our family in addition to the usual hustle of Christmas Day preparations, the profound significance of Christmas can easily be lost. As I considered the meaning […]
Be Thou My Vision
“In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.” Prov 16:9 Shortly after my journey through Breast cancer treatment ended in February of 2012, we began another journey of treatment for our daughter’s not-so rare eye condition, Superior Oblique Paresis. At around the age of two we started to notice […]
Tuesday Small
Today is not a Tuesday, but four years ago on this date, it happened to be a Tuesday. I wrote about the significance of the events of that day in a post entitled Divine Appointment. Lately I have been reading a lot about Tuesdays in Emily Freeman’s yet to be released book Simply Tuesday. [only […]
Summer Sorrow
The attitude as a saint to sorrow and difficulty is not to ask that they may be prevented, but to ask that I may preserve the self God created me to be through every fire of sorrow…If you receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people. Oswald Chambers, […]
Face to Face: A Life of Moses Recap
How do you take seven months of rich study, four books of the Bible and one extraordinary life and sum it all up into a few succinct sentences that adequately describe their significance to this day to day journey called life? It is always a challenge to reflect upon my Bible Study Fellowship year and […]
What I Learned in March
I used to think February was the roughest month but I learned that March is a close second for being my least favorite month of the year. It does have the redeeming quality of sometimes hosting Easter. But I have grown extremely weary of the cold here in the Mid-Atlantic (I think that is what […]