How deep do we want to go with God? I just returned from following my seventeen-year-old son across three states to watch him compete in several basketball tournaments. One of them was held in Las Vegas. For this rurally bred girl, I find it a disturbing city. On the outside it’s sparkly and alluring, but… Read more »
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How Does Being Adopted Change Our Relationship With God?
Do we truly see ourselves as God’s adored kids? I recently had the privilege of visiting Expression58 and hearing Jennifer Toledo speak. She shared how she had been lamenting to the Lord her lack of a testimony. Having been raised with an intimate relationship with the Lord, there was no riveting dark alley conversion. He then… Read more »
Do Thoughts Determine Whether We Are Victorious or Defeated?
What thoughts are we thinking? Bill Johnson says that any thought we have that doesn’t inspire hope is under the influence of a lie. When things get rough, we tend to go straight for the S.O.S. prayers. “God, get me out of this mess!” But what if God has a miracle he’s waiting to give us,… Read more »
How Giving Up Our Rights Brings Freedom
Quite a few years ago we went on a long road trip. Family reunion in Canada, a lovely sojourn to Wallowa Lake and then visited friends as we meandered back home. There was very little grousing from the short people in the backseat as we wound our way up over mountains and down through canyons…. Read more »
Why Some People Struggle More Than Others
Why do some of us seem to struggle more than others? Many of us have learned to hide our struggles because society tends to focus on outward behavior. We haven’t been taught or we tend to ignore the reality that outward behaviors (i.e. drinking, gossip, criticalness, stealing) are symptoms of internal struggles. Wounds that haven’t healed…. Read more »
The Relationship God Desires
What kind of relationship does God want with us? In my last post, I shared how God had exposed a mindset that I needed shaken free from. A wrong belief that I had to please God in order to have His presence. As soon as that understanding took root, stress and the pressure to perform disappeared… Read more »
Finding Our Way
How do we walk free from performance when it’s deeply embedded in our thinking? I went for a hike today. First one by myself. Emotions were billowing in me and I needed someplace quiet where I could let those emotions loose if needed. And I didn’t want to be that weird woman crying on the… Read more »
The Greatest Gift
How often do we attempt to control others without even realizing it? We tend to consider it a form of love. If we see someone we care for headed along a path riddled with dangerous pot holes, how can we not step in? How can we stand by and let them feel the pain of… Read more »
Lake of Grace
How deep is the Sea of Forgetfulness? The other day regret came knocking on my door. Unfortunately, I answered. And he didn’t come by himself. Condemnation and guilt followed him right into my living room, while accusation slithered in on their heels. Guilt and condemnation held up some past failures and accusation and regret jumped in,… Read more »
The Standard We Carry
I had my feelings hurt today. Do sometimes we need approval so much that we don’t stop to assess whether the approval giver is standing on solid rock? They may be a Jesus follower, but do their values line up with what Jesus values? There is a lot of judgment in our world. We do… Read more »
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