When I was a little girl we had a huge weeping willow tree in the front yard of our house. It sat to the right of the porch and encompassed the whole area. I remember feeling so small beneath its branches. I would crawl under the canopy and hide behind the fragrant green curtain, and…

1 Samuel 23:23 Find out about all the hiding places he uses and come back to me with definite information. It is a funny thing, this need to hide ourselves from others. I sat this morning pondering an email I had gotten from a close friend.You know the kind of friend that speaks honestly and…

Many years ago I went to my daughters school to have lunch with her. As I sat in the hallway waiting for her class to appear, I watched the children make their way through the cavernous hallways. Single file… Mouths tightly shut… The familiar clip, clip of the teacher’s heels pounding on the tiled floors.…

God is calling His children closer to Himself. I know this, not because someone told me, but because I am experiencing it my own life.I used to think that God just wanted me to be good.Now I know He just wants me close to Him.Period. The rest will take care of itself. It would be…

Sometimes the most frustrating thing in the world can be trying to forget the past. We remember old wounds and unkind words quite easily. It is as if with each replaying of the incident, it becomes etched a bit deeper upon our soul. We hit the rewind button, listen to the whispers of the enemy…

John 15: 5”I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you’re joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can’t produce a thing. When you are joined with Him, the relationship intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant.…

At the end of last year while studying for a class series, I literally felt myself tap into something in God; somewhat like the nurse who is looking for a workable vein and finally hits it.In a very spiritually visceral sense, I believe that is what took place.I felt something surge in the Spirit when…

Jesus declared, Believe me woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers…

When I was little girl my mother bought me a music box. It was an ordinary little white, flowery, square box that I presume most little girls had at one point or another in their childhood. When you opened the lid of the box a small spring-held ballerina would arise and begin her twirling dance.I…

I loved going to the ocean when I was a child. We did not have any money to speak of, but every year we would make the trek to Daytona Beach for a full week. It has been 28 years since we took such a trip, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Mom…