I have been a proliferator of devotionals for most of my adult life ; all helpful on a day to day basis in my walk with God and to encourage...

Have you taken part in  Pay it Forward Day?  Maybe you paid for someone’s meal in a restaurant or shovelled someone’s sidewalk. It is fun to...

I glance over to the bookshelf in my writing room, to the area reserved for my own published books. A frog bookend leans against them, hold...

Sometimes I don't want to talk to God. Mostly, it's when I suddenly glimpse all the junk that still lurks in me after all this walki...

Organizing my time at home may be difficult enough, but try it on vacation. Oh! Come on now, that’s when you have the time to spare, is...

The breeze from the open car window systematically emptied the tissue box in the back-seat. In my mind’s eye, these were blank pages, lost, ...

I never know what will bring on memories and tears. I start into church thinking today is a good day. Someone says hello and I dissolve ...

I guess it is possible that King David was dwelling on actual physical warfare when he penned the following words, but it makes me think of...

"Deborah" by Gustave Dore TODAY'S SPECIAL: Judges 5:1-18 TO CHEW ON: "In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, In the ...

I woke up early the day before Valentines Day, and the house was empty, which almost never happens. Odd. I wandered around, looking i...

I’ve been working through Beth Moore’s A Woman’s Heart workbook with my Bible study group at church. Gotta say, it’s challenging in place...

2 Timothy 1:11-12 "And of this gospel I was appointed a herald … I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed and am convinced...

A Bad Day. We got a call from the vet that my dog had been hit by a car. She was still alive when we got there and we had to decide whether ...

I’ve finally found a daily personal workout routine that suits me. Friends told me about its benefits, but I didn’t really believe them ...

"Now thanks be to God who ALWAYS leads us in triumph in Christ..." 2 Corinthians 2:14 If you are old enough, you may recall the...

(First published on my blog in June 2005.) Despite the many unread books stacked beside my bed, because of a new habit I’ve fallen into, tha...

“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10, NIV” When we fi...

The NIV is my usual Bible of choice, but every so often I’ll pick up a different translation. Sometimes a phrase in a different version ju...

I'll Do It My Way TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 Chronicles 16:1-13 TO CHEW ON: "For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to stren...

I was driving my daughter to school one morning when, just as we were about to turn a corner, a huge buck bounded out in front of us. We bot...