We All Wrestle

Good morning... "Hi Sue," she wrote after yesterday's widely viewed post. "What I really love about today’s post is that this unknown Alabama resident was mentally/physically wrestling with anxiety while you were at the wrestling duels! My son wrestles too and I was in Macon that weekend as well." She explained: "Think about how hard these athletes work for [...]

By |2020-02-17T05:42:42-05:00February 17th, 2020|Anxiety, Everyday life, Letting Go, Silence And Solitude, Trust God|

Peace Permeates Us

Good morning... We are invited into deeper trust. God feels every fear, God knows every need, and God offers permeating peace to calm our anxiety. In the privacy of our personal prayers, will we take time to let go and lay down our worries? Fear will not leave us alone, worries naturally well up in each human heart. [...]

By |2020-01-08T14:24:46-05:00January 9th, 2020|Anxiety, Fear, Letting Go, Peace, Trust God|

We Receive Peace

Good morning... I was not expecting to wake up yesterday to the message below written by my husband, a high school chaplain who takes his monthly turn writing a weekly devotional with their team of chaplains. It is as if he opened up the bag and let out all our scared cats. ****** Morning Devotional for January 7, [...]

By |2020-01-08T13:37:03-05:00January 8th, 2020|Anxiety, Everyday life, Letting Go, Peace, Trust God|

Unmet Expectations

Good morning... I was looking forward to our time together, sharing face-to-face, one-on-one. I was hoping for an important, intimate conversation. I was anticipating wonderful, but completely against my will wonderful changed its form. I was disappointed. Frustrated. Mad that my well formed expectations were not being met. If I had stayed angrily stuck on how I thought [...]

By |2019-12-30T10:15:45-05:00December 30th, 2019|Everyday life, Gratitude, Letting Go, Trust God|

Steal My Show

Good morning... "No matter who we are and no matter what we do, we all got our own show, we got our own life," explains TobyMac from the stage at the end of his live concert. "We can either take that life and we can make it ours or we can give it to God and ask Him [...]

By |2019-11-28T05:53:36-05:00November 28th, 2019|Everyday life, God's Love, Gratitude, Letting Go, Trust God|

We Don’t Understand

Good morning... "I don't understand anxiety and depression," she said after returning home from a funeral. Our daughter's 22-year-old brain was trying to process why her good friend's mother would take her own life. We both agreed. Because it is not happening to us, it is impossible for any of us to comprehend the swirling storm of anxiety [...]

By |2019-11-19T08:26:08-05:00November 19th, 2019|Anxiety, Depression, God's Love, Letting Go|

I Ruined Two Cars

Good morning... In my dream I had gotten a brand new car, and the next morning I woke thrilled to spin away on my spiffy fresh wheels. Pushing the automatic opener attached to my pristine sun visor, I opened the garage door to make my car's maiden voyage. Fiddling with the new feel, I put the car in [...]

By |2019-11-18T08:26:20-05:00November 18th, 2019|Awareness, God's Plan, Heaven On Earth, Letting Go, New From Old|

750 Babies And More!

Good morning... Remember the hard labor I experienced last month? I felt like I was birthing a 12-pound baby as I delivered into the world the manuscript for this year's Advent devotional entitled With God Weather Life. Well, since I pushed the words into this world, we fine-tooth-combed her full head of hair and took gorgeous black and white [...]

By |2019-11-15T13:26:05-05:00November 15th, 2019|Everyday life, God's Plan, Imperfection, Letting Go, Spiritual Growth|

Savor Sabbath: Be Emptied Then Filled

Good morning... When we are emptied out by the harshness of life, we dig deeper into God and are filled full in new ways. Each of our posts this week have touched on this theme: as we surrender our own expectations, God's higher ways begin to emerge. Touch the "Past Blog Posts" button below to review our everyday [...]

By |2019-11-10T06:17:58-05:00November 10th, 2019|Death And Resurrection, Family and Friends, God's Love, Letting Go, Sabbath|

I Just Birthed A Baby

Good morning... I feel like I just birthed a 12 pound baby. Naturally. After three full day of hard, hard labor. Our baby was conceived by God a long while back, but this was the weekend her due date graced my calendar. Sunday was my well anticipated time to deliver. For months and months, really years and years, [...]

By |2019-10-02T08:14:41-04:00October 1st, 2019|God's Timing, Letting Go, Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Growth, Trust God|
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