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Me? Are you sure about this, God? But what about A,B,C and X,Y,Z?? When God calls us to step out in faith for his kingdom’s sake, many of us start battling two lies.  1. We think we are unqualified and he’s got the wrong person. 2. We think it’s our battle to fight. Both ofContinue reading “You’ve got the wrong girl”

I look at the pictures of white supremacists and their hate scares my soul. I don’t understand it. I don’t understand how that much hate can live inside a person, inside a group of people. My defense is to say nothing. Because the problem seems too big and I am not an expert. But thereContinue reading “Jesus is not afraid of the dark”

We think it’s our job to hold it all together, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Three months ago Sara Henderson’s hair was dyed fiery red– well she calls it magenta. For Mother’s Day, though, she brought it back to a chocolatey brown with the help of some friends from church. This would be the first time she would see her three children in over two years– and her oldest son,Continue reading “A Slave Set Free– Sara’s Story”

Building our house seemed to take forever. We would come out and have a picnic on the sidewalk each week watching all the machines digging the earth and moving dirt out to lay the foundation. But no matter how hard they worked, at the end of the day the pile of dirt looked about theContinue reading “Being Built”

Early in the morning when the sky was still black, my four year old insomniac tiptoed to my bed. “What’sa matter sweetie? You can’t sleep?” She shook her head, climbed up in bed, snuggled in the covers, and turned on her tummy. “Tickle my back, mommy.” I danced my fingers up and down, side toContinue reading “Love Never Dies”

Imagine me dressed up in my grey slacks and white blouse ready to teach a college class. A picture of conformed professionalism. I walk into the bathroom before class and something makes me halt. A woman was singing her little heart out in the bathroom. I mean this was not humming. This was full-out beltingContinue reading “Singin’ in the…bathroom??”

My kids came home with a little craft from bible school last week. It was a strange looking popsicle man with a verse tied to it. “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good.” Genesis 50:20. As Luke practiced the verse out loud to me through the week, the truth of itContinue reading “You intended to harm me, but…”

I rode all around the 80 acres thinking I would see tons of wildflowers. But there were waves and waves of tall grass, thistles, and trees. I turned a corner and started down the hill and my eye darted to the only vibrant color amongst the miles of dry grass. One flower. Just one. IContinue reading “Just one Flower”