Over the last couple weeks as I have anticipated today, the last day of school, my prayer has been that my children will encounter God in a powerful way this summer; that He will invade their lives and they will know like never before. That they will know who He is. Some of that involves…
Yesterday I flew out to Colorado Springs to meet my new literary agent, Blythe Daniel. I am really excited! We seem like a great fit! (We didn’t have someone to take the picture for us!) This is outside my hotel window. What a view of Pike’s Peak. They just got snow on it this week….
Song of Solomon 1:5-6 (New Living Translation) I am dark but beautiful, O women of Jerusalem— dark as the tents of Kedar, dark as the curtains of Solomon’s tents. Don’t stare at me because I am dark— the sun has darkened my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they forced me to care for…
Proverbs 17:9 “Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends.” (NLT) Love prospers when a fault is forgiven. The wording in this verse struck me oddly. Isn’t forgiveness given when someone has sinned or done something against you? Why would forgiveness apply to a fault? I guess I needed…
I couldn’t believe it. It felt just like I was back in high school. The name was “Jesus Freck”. Now, the teasing looked a little bit different, but the intent to hurt was still the same. “Her biggest problem is that she probably gets up each morning and prays to be a perfect mom.” Ouch!…
Have you ever cried so hard you felt your heart would break open; the hurt so deep no one could possibly understand? Or how about the exact opposite? So extactic, so excited, yet no one else feels the same way? Solomon explains in Proverbs 14:10 “Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else…