Category Encouragement

Picking Up Where You Left Off

My dear and precious readers, you make me smile. You make me smile! I have found in life that there are times where I get disconnected from people or projects that I wish I had been dedicated and more disciplined to.  As I pick back up or attempt to get reconnected there is often a […]

By the Love for my Husband

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”  John 13:35 (NIV) Do I want to be known as a disciple of Jesus?  Absolutely! The verse in John is pretty clear about how to do that…love one another.  I have heard many messages on this verse over the years, […]

A Fullness of Joy

Have you ever spent days mentally battling yourself over a topic?  An epic struggle rolls and tumbles through your head and heart, opposing ideas tumultuously and rapidly exchanging advantage one for the other & back again, all while the outside of you quietly and systematically presses on through normal routine in a mundane way.  Inside […]

Lean in with Every Ounce

Do you ever experience a theme in your life?  A message that repeats itself time and time again over a relatively short period of time? If I were to pick a theme lately that is occurring in my life, it would be LEAN IN.  This theme seems to be popping up in what I am […]

An Extra Day

It’s leap day, February 29th.  How many times have we hoped and wished for just one extra day?  Extra time to do the things we long to do.  Here it is.  Today is the day.  What are you going to do with it? Here’s a kicker to this extra day, this time around leap day […]