I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to review books by Moody Publishers. The first book I’m reading is Approaching the Almighty, 100 Prayers of A.W. Tozer, Compiled by Phil Shappard.* These prayers are an answer to our refilling prayer. Tozer’s words are so passionate and so moving I can feel the Holy Spirit stirring within. […]
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This year my God experiences at Missions College were a series of reaffirmations. God reaffirmed what I’m doing for Him; He reaffirmed the importance of what I pledged for the New Year (to take everything to Him in prayer), and He reaffirmed that with Him, all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). Before I left for
I’m home. Last week I attended Missions College which is a yearly conference, you guessed it, about missions. The first one I attended in 2020 right before the pandemic was the catalyst behind the book I’m writing. God met me there and made clear what He wanted me to do. This year, He gave me
January blues seem to be a yearly thing for me. It’s amazing how I can go from feeling energized with all of the exciting things I’m going to do in the new year, to depressed – completely depressed – within the first week. This January hasn’t even been bad, weather-wise; well, today is. Typical Ohio
A story that I heard years ago:Once there was a really bad storm that left thousands of starfish stranded on a beach. They could survive there for a while, but they wouldn’t make it until the tide came in, and several were past the point where the tide would ever reach them. After the storm
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These are portions of some posts from 2011-2014 that were a little more reflective. I think it’s fine to spend time reflecting back as long as we don’t beat ourselves up over things we can’t do anything about now, and as long as we don’t dwell on, or try to live in the past. One
Apparently, in 2011, I went through old emails and copied them for my blog. Remember when people used to send all these funny stories in emails instead of posting them on social media? So, just for fun, I’m sharing two of them that made me smile. From One Pumpkin To Another A woman was asked
[I originally wrote the first part of this post on my Seven Dgrees of Me blog in 2011*] I took an online class a couple of years ago and the first assignment was to write a brief “about me” type of description of yourself. This really turned out to be a difficult thing for me