Posts Tagged "thankfulness"

Ok, God, I’m Listening

Posted by on Apr 20, 2012 in Blog, Encouragement | 9 comments

Ok, God, I’m Listening

Prayer with a friend stopped short when I received a call from the school secretary saying, “Justin was in an accident during gym class.” Racing for the soccer ball in a one-on-one game against time, my eleven-year old collided heads with another boy. Arriving at the nurse’s office, my son lay flopped on her bench with an icepack to the back of his head, eyes glazed. The doctor said he...

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Christmas Screams

Posted by on Dec 21, 2011 in Blog, Poetry | 0 comments

Christmas Screams

When the valleys seem deeper, longer than the heights, depths of our mountaintop times, He is here. If we could see Him we would break into shouts of joy. He is here. He is here with His itinerary that makes Satan’s schemes look like child’s play. Satan doesn’t want us to see him, doesn’t want us to sense him, doesn’t want us to “consider it pure joy when we suffer trials of all...

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Business, Busyness, & Big, Brave Dreams!

Posted by on Apr 8, 2010 in Blog, Devotional | 1 comment

Business, Busyness, & Big, Brave Dreams!

Excitement rivals nervousness as I launch my poetic gift book, “A Friend in the Storm.” After five years and a thousand revisions, I liken this feeling to sending a child to college, hoping he’ll fly against the winds and rains. I wrestle over which daily duty to attack: laundry, e-mail, phoning, planning or blogging?” I love how God volunteers to be our business manager: “If...

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