Do you ever experience situations where God presents you with opportunities (a.k.a., tests) in the areas of trust and faith and you feel that you fall short? I sure do! I sometimes allow anxiety, fear or frustration to take hold before looking to the Lord for guidance. Despite witnessing growth ...

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Isn’t that the $10,000 question for most believers? What is God’s will for my life? How do I discern what he wants me to do? What if I make the wrong decision? The what-if’s threaten to overwhelm us. For some, the struggle is primarily with the weightier choices in life ...

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This is my beautiful baby girl – taking some of her first steps at her grandmother’s house in 1990. Don’t you love that 1970’s era carpet? My daughter was around nine months old in this photo. She had her whole life ahead of her. And I, as her mother, contemplated many ...

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Positive home test January 1, 2023 – Happy New Year! I’ve been distracted over the holiday season and haven’t taken the time to blog recently. I guess I have plenty of time now to do so, as I’m holed up in my office/extra room convalescing with Covid-19. Yep, started feeling off ...

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Are you struggling to find purpose in your life? Yeah, me too! In all seriousness, this is an area – one of the many – that I do struggle with at times and have been as of late. Am I doing what I’m supposed to be doing? Am I living my ...

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Bucks…greenbacks…currency…cold, hard cash. In today’s increasingly digital world, these terms aren’t as as fitting as they once were. Still, whether our wallets hold paper money and coin or a plethora of plastic cards (or even digital cards in our phone wallets) it all gets back to the same thing – ...

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or·​di·​nary: (adjective) of common quality, rank or ability; (synonyms) average, commonplace, unremarkable. Just a simple knock out rose from a shrub in our flower bed. Ordinary, yet beautiful. I am ordinary. Finding contentment in just being ordinary in today’s western culture can be challenging. America is all about being the best and having ...

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