"A Prayer of Humble Trust"

 “Lord, I have given up my pride and turned away from my arrogance. I am not concerned with great matters or with subjects too difficult for me.  Instead, I am content and at peace. As a child lies quietly in its mother’s arms, so my heart is quiet within me....

What will last forever? Not my plants.

“All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,  but the word of the Lord endures forever.” 1 Peter 1:24-25. Thank goodness that God’s word is not like the bougainvillea in my backyard!  We have...

Relationship Qualities

This morning when I started off reading God’s word, I was embarrassed about the words I was reading. Ezekiel was all about prostitution, and believe me it was explicit in some areas. Ugh. After reading through all the scriptures, I read James 4:8 to Tim and...

My Three Kids

There were so many fabulous scriptures in today’s reading. But I couldn’t help but focus on a couple with my children in mind. I know I totally used to take this one verse out of context, but I prayed it over my youngest son, Cole, quite often when he was...

Edgy or honest?

This is the week of Thanksgiving.  For our family, during this season of our lives, that means a trip to Kentucky. Each day someone is sitting in a tree stand or some type of blind to hunt for the following year’s meat…deer. Yesterday morning and late afternoon I was...