Lessons From an Accident
I want to start out with something I hate: dealing with any and all car issues. Whether it’s a nail in my tire, in which I think I at the professional level of finding them, or something more serious like a car accident. Unfortunately, I have had more than my share of car issues in […]
Easter 2021
Leaving church Sunday after our services was bittersweet. Everything was wonderful-the music, the sermon, the flowers, the fellowship, seeing more friends come back. It was bittersweet because today I start on an unfamiliar journey-a Sabbath from being our Worship Chair (one that I have held since 2016). It has been a very challenging last 12 […]
Just ASK!
One of the decisions you have to make when you’re self-publishing a book is choosing a Publisher name, otherwise known as a business name for your company. This is harder than you may think-I had to choose one or two words about faith. I tried many different ways to find the right words, including searching […]
Holy Week
How can I explain Holy week to someone who doesn’t know? Jesus starts his week in a parade just for him and just 7 days later he is resurrected from the dead? What a week that he walked into, fulfilling God’s will. I wonder how much he knew ahead of time about what was going […]
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
Easter morning included a time of sadness. Like Pastor Scott said in his sermon, the disciples went home. They went back to their regular lives, to what was familiar, because they didn’t know what else to do. Even though they learned the tomb was empty, they didn’t have Jesus there to explain it to them. […]
Rock Climbing
A few weeks ago, while up at the Garden of the Gods, we saw this rock climber. We stared in awe as he worked his way up, a small step at a time. For the time we watched, he was carefully planning each move, talking with his partner on the ground and clipping his carabiner […]
Morning Time in the Garden
This morning, I decided to go work in our home garden to pull some weeds that I had been neglecting. It’s easy to do that, like neglecting self-care and quiet time with God. I know that you’re supposed to make time, be intentional about it and all, and it’s one thing to say it, but […]
Windshield Focus
A friend reminded me the other day of the saying, “there is a reason the windshield is so big and the rearview mirror is so small”. It was his way of reminding me to focus on the hope of what is ahead and not the things of the past that we can’t change anyway. When […]
Time to Let Go and Let God?
One of the tasks at my job at a medical office is to deposit the checks. Yes, even with all the advances in technology, we do still get a lot of checks from insurances and patients. One of the conveniences with this is I have my own check scanner, like at the banks. Well, convenient […]
STOP or GO?
I saw this stop sign on top of Monarch Mountain while on a weekend getaway a couple months ago. I knew immediately that I needed to write a devotional about it. But, because I was busy working on another project, I put it aside. Last week, Pastor Scott asked if I wanted to write a […]