Dying to Live?
In 2015 my word for the year was LIVE. On the heels of several funerals at the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015, death made me look at how I lived. LIVE R...
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Is God a Promise Keeper?
Questions. Scenarios. Probabilities. Sounds like my daughter’s math problems. Except these questions, scenarios, and probabilities are what is swirling around ...
Where The Pavement Ends
There is a place many of us have been to and wished we hadn’t. It is called “at the end of my rope.” There is another similar place called “end of the line.” ...
I Was Robbed
Recently, I was robbed. It was an unusual theft, but theft all the same. It still left me with feelings of anger from a situation imposed unfairly and grief t...
More Than a Birthday
I was born on October 2 in a small town in Michigan. Birthdays are significant in that they represent life. We are all unique, a one of a kind miracle of God. ...
So Yesterday!
So Yesterday! Recently, in an attempt to be culturally relevant to my new freshman in high school daughter, I brought up the Miley Cyrus twerking incident. I a...
Is Forgiveness A Choice?
I want the power to forgive. I want the power to withhold my forgiveness! It is ALL my choice! That power can be exhilarating! But, sometimes, I don’t want th...
Death Stings
“Oh Death where is your sting?” I will tell you where the sting is. It stings in the core of your heart when your loved one passes away. It stings every time ...
Ugly beautiful
The Bible tells us that we should “at all times and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.” (Ephesians 5:20, AMP) ...
Abbey Journal – “Retreat Anyone?”
Monday, October 10, 2011 4:00pm We could not have asked for better weather. It doesn’t always work that way when you go away on retreat. I remember one year g...