Want to stay connected? Sign up here to receive my blog posts automatically, follow me on Pinterest or Twitter, on Instagram at lynncowell or like my page on Facebook. Welcome to those of you who are joining us after reading my Proverbs 31 devotion. {If you haven’t read it yet, click here to do so.} The letting…
Today I am so excited to have a guest – my new friend Jennifer Dukes Lee. I couldn’t help but like Jennifer right away. For beginners, we’re both Iowa girls! Second, well…we’ve both struggled a lot with approval and are ready to put it behind us! In fact, helping others find God’s unconditional approval is…
Finally, she was home! Finding me out on the patio, fresh in from college, I immediately started talking. So excited to have her home, I talked and talked and talked. Finally, when I stopped for a moment, she spoke her words: I need to talk to you. It never occurred to me that she found…
Where had the morning gone? It was almost noon and there was so much list left to accomplish on this already-too-short day. I’ve got to get to my desk and get something done! I could literally feel my heart beating faster as I tried to determine which item to tackle first. That was the timing when the…
They just wouldn’t quit coming. New after new after new. Every time my daughter turned around this past school year, she was facing something new. Her first job, her SAT. New relationship opportunities and new relationship struggles. And sometimes, well, all the new seemed too much. This morning I read of a young man who…
Samson & Delilah Last Friday, we learned from Delilah, sometimes when we get what we thought we wanted, we find we really don’t want it. Today, we’ll learn a lesson from Samson; a lesson that can best be summoned up in a quote from Maya Angelou. “When someone shows you who they are; believe them…