Voxer beeps and I pick up my phone to listen to the incoming message. My sister and I chat back and forth with our handy-dandy app. She shares about the struggles she’s been facing and I confess the irritations and insecurities I’ve been fighting against all morning. We ponder a few questions batting them back […]
What Do I Have To Offer?
What do I have to offer? The truth? This is the question I ask far too often. I don’t feel especially talented or called. I don’t have great ambitions or terrific dreams. I’m not a mover or changer. I don’t thrive in large crowds and one of my favorite things is curling up with a […]
Doubt {Five Minute Friday}
Doubt. Doubt means I’m all out. Of trust and I’m second-guessing. Questioning truths I know deep in my soul. Doubt lets Satan get a foothold. Doubt lets him throw accusations at me. He lobs them with precision. He is evil through and through, but he is good at hitting his target. Doubt. Doubt may be a […]
Dream On! {Five Minute Friday}
Dreams and hopes and plans. They are important. They offer adventure and hope and life. Life without the looking forward or the what-ifs or the reaching-for-the-stars becomes flat-lined and dull and dreary. A dismal thing to trudge through completing tasks, but missing the miracles woven in the moments. The clean, tidy kitchen with each dish […]
Flat-On-My-Back-Sciatic-Blues {Five Minute Friday}
A year ago, I was flat on my back and then flat on my face. Literally. Lower back pain that kept bothering me and continued to get worse and then erupted into sciatic pain down my leg and into my foot. And if I were going to choose a color to represent this haze of […]
Thankful That the Bible Meets Me in Real Life {Five Minute Friday}
Life is real, Life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal, Dust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow {Find all the eloquent words here ~} REAL. The writing prompt for this Five Minute Friday. The verse above was one of the first things to pop […]
A Lifeway Visit {Five Minute Friday}
I stood in the middle of the Lifeway store and looked around me. My sister-in-law had a gift item that needed returned and I was glad to visit an actual, real life, Lifeway storefront. I’d shopped Lifeway online, but never stepped foot inside one of their stores. I felt at home as I looked at all […]
A Touchstone of Remembrance When… {Five Minute Friday}
WHEN Linking up with Kate That’s the writing prompt. It turned my mind to a couple of things that have been running through my head anyway. I thought about the beginning verses in Joshua 4. I studied this passage a few years ago, in the Bible study, Believing God. I was inspired with the […]
We Wait {Five Minute Friday}
At 3:30 my daughter creeps into our bedroom, softly, and awakens me. It startles me and I jump awake, startling her back and causing her to laugh a little and say, “Sorry, Mom.” “Becca threw up,” she says. Our nine-year old niece and cousin, visiting from Ohio, is sick. Poor girl. Away from home. Away […]
Amid the Turns {Five-Minute Friday}
It’s that time of year. The leaves have turned. The weather is turning. And turns and turns again. Teasing us. Beautiful and gorgeous and just right one day. Then changing and turning cold the next. Calm and cool. Windy and wild. Sunny and soft. From one extreme to another here in this Kansas land. It […]
Because {Five Minute Friday}
It’s a new day! A beautiful new day. Sunshine streaming in the window. Birds chirping. Cool air whispering through the screens. Cooper, lost to sight in the milo field, barking, barking, fiercely on the trail of some unseen conquest. The bumping of scooter wheels and banging of the garage door as my girl feeds the […]
What Jesus Tells {Five Minute Friday}
Sometimes this ole world feels like such a noisy, messy, scary place and I don’t think I can take one more story or hear any more bad news or listen to the fussing or watch the greediness and selfishness and hear about the evils and atrocities. Whether across the globe or inside my own community […]
The Exhale of the Waiting {Five Minute Friday}
The sound of the creek running and gurgling filters in the open window. Much of the time it is just a dry and empty creek bed, but today, swollen from the recent rains we’ve had, it makes music that we aren’t used to hearing and it is lovely. The mower rumbles and the smell of […]
The Line Between Something and Nothing {Five-Minute Friday}
It is so easy to take something for granted. Life has a way of falling into routine and I expect things to play out and happen at the same pace or the way I have planned. Yet, so much of life is separated only by a tiny, fragile thread. And something can go to nothing […]
Mess, ah Mess! {Five-Minute Friday}
When I checked in at Lisa-Jo’s the writing prompt was mess. Yep. I can sure relate to that. Don’t I find myself often saying or thinking……….. My house is a mess. I’m a mess. The wind causes a lot of mess. Who made this mess? They’re a mess. What a mess! We need to clean […]
God Doesn’t Need Super Glue. He Just Needs Yielded. {Five Minute Friday}
Rough patches of dried super glue stuck on my fingers. It wears away slowly and picking at it doesn’t do that much good. It’s super glue, you know. It adheres quickly to pieces, patches, fragments, or fingers. The super glue squeezes out of the applicator in a small stream along the jagged edge of the […]
Willing to Let Go {Five Minute Friday}
Am I willing? Am I really willing to let go? In my daily devotional, I’ve been reading about and studying about and thinking about letting go of my worries and fears and problems. Really letting go and trusting God and turning them over to Him. Really trusting His promises and even embracing problems and thanking […]