Soaking up the Son

I am free!  I am free!  I am no longer a taxi mom. Mine and Tim’s third and final child recently turned sixteen. A mix of emotions washed over me when Cole proudly received his drivers license. On the last day of me taxing him to school, I mentioned to Cole, “You...

Can you relate to this piece of furniture?  Seriously…listen… When I first procured this adorably shaped table, it was a hot mess.  The legs were wobbly and cracked, the drawer was falling apart (Well, it actually did fall apart.), and the paint was in need of some...

“Look at the birds.  They don’t plant, harvest, or save food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them.  Don’t you know you are worth much more than they are?  You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it.  And why do you worry about clothes?  Look at...

Another lesson from the cows. About a couple of days after those silly cows got themselves into “hitchhiker” trouble again (Click here) , Cole came inside and said, “Those cows have done a good job helping clean each other up.”  I said, “There’s another devotion.” In...

Walking along the path in our backwoods is where I have been doing my prayer walks each day.  Since Hurricane Irma, there are still a few trees down and a plethora of limbs strewed throughout the woods. When I passed by one fallen tree, I was reminded how we are all a...

Ooops, they did it again. Are we so different from these crazed cows? Here’s why I ask:  Remember when I wrote about our silly cows getting out of the pasture, not once but twice in one morning? (Click here to read about that day and the lesson that was presented...

Do you have those days when you feel like the devil is having a field day in your mind? Questions run rampant in your mind like:  Am I a good parent/friend/sibling/child/______?  How can I be a better _________? Am I talented enough to do ____? Boy, oh boy, I sure...

Since I decided to take a personal leave from teaching this year, folks often (quite often) ask me “How do you spend your day?”  or “What are you going to do now?” We all have choices to make in life, and I pray that after you hear my choice for this morning, you will...

It’s a Praying-Kind-of-Day. When is it not a praying-kind-of-day? In Ephesians 6:18 we read, Pray in the Spirit at all times.  Pray with all kinds of prayers, and ask for everything you need.  To do this you must always be ready.  Never give up.  Always pray for all...

Have you ever spoon fed a baby, and while attempting to have them eat, you open your mouth so that they can imitate the action?  Still to this day, when I feed a baby, I open my mouth when I give them food. Oh, and don’t forget the “mmmm” sound too. (I bet many of you...

What impresses God? So many of us TRY so hard to impress others.  The way we dress, who we associate ourselves with, the jobs we obtain, the amount of money we make, the cars we drive, the home or neighborhood we live in, the “trophy spouse” by our side, and on and...

Perspective. It is a wet wintery morning here in central Florida.  The temperature is forty degrees (with “feels like” in the 30s), and the precipitation is at 100%. The wind gust often has the rain streaming horizontally across the pasture.  Windchill factor is in...