Author Archives: Julie Williams

Encourage others by sharing

As has happened so many times in my life, my daughter is helping me to see with new eyes.  This time it relates to sharing.  It’s time for a new perspective on the old rule. Yesterday I picked my daughter up from school.  In the front console of my car I keep a package of […]

Say thank you!

Thank you so much for reading my blog today.  My writing would be nothing without you.  For there is a beautiful dance that happens between writer and reader.  It brings me so much joy to dance through life with you.  I hope and pray that you enjoy the dance too.  So I begin to write […]

Receive the gift of those around you

You are a precious and beloved gift unto this world.  Many days you may not feel like it, but you are.  You are a one of a kind, unique and special treasure.  You are a wonderfully made hand crafted original; the likes of which have never been seen before nor will ever be seen again. […]

Search for beauty

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.”  If God is ever present, then His handwriting must be all around us.  Perhaps it is time to search for it, to intentionally seek it out and see what messages have been left for us. In my […]

Finding joy through prayer

“A battery can not give out what it does not have”, that is a phrase that my pastor frequently uses.  We have to recharge ourselves before we can go out to encourage others passionately.  For so long in my life I attempted to encourage others through my own limited reserves of energy and power.  Then […]