The Truth About Our Identity – The Finale
From SHE – Girls Night Out and the preceding blogs preceding this one. 5. Everyone must discover their identity. How did you encourage your kids and support your husband in finding their identity in Christ? That’s a good question. Honestly, my husband and I, both set the example in finding our family’s identity. We got…
The Truth About Our Identity – Question 4
(Continued from the SHE – Girls Night Out and the last two days’ blogs) 4. Have there been times when you felt like you lost your identity? How did you then rediscover it?It was probably when my husband graduated to heaven. We were always a couple since we were ages 12 and 13. We did…
The Truth About Our Identity – Questions 2 & 3
(Continued from Yesterday’s Blog and the “SHE – Girls Night Out”) 2. In a world that is filled with comparison, how have you stayed firm in your identity and avoided the traps of comparison? I can’t say that I have stayed firm or avoided the traps of comparison. When I was a child, I wanted…
The Truth About our Identity – Part 1
As I mentioned in a previous blog, I was asked to be on a panel again as I had been at the last SHE – Girl’s Night Out at my church last year. Well, not exactly like the previous panel because there were four of us on that panel. This year, I was a panel…
The Great Multiplier – Little Can Be Very Much
In our daily text or voice conversations, my daughter continues to tell me about her flourishing vegetable garden (seen here). She called me yesterday to give me an update! I had to see for myself! She AND her crops are thriving. That makes me think about our God – the Great Multiplier. Multiply means to…
My Deep Well is Overflowing
Friday night, I was a panel of one for a “Girls Night Out” event at church. It was to be a 19-minute “Talk with Nana”. Me being a widow and me having a vast storage of content inside me needing to be released, meant I had to withhold so much inside me. Some of that…
ENOUGH Already!
Ever said these words? “I’ve had it!” “Enough is enough!” “I can’t take it anymore!” “I’ve had ENOUGH!” “ENOUGH already!” ENOUGH (in the context of “had enough”): outraged, tired, sick, weary, disappointed, fed up, up to here, teed off We’ve all been there – to the crushing point of exhaustion. We’ve long stood for an…
Shakey World But Unshakeable Faith
After catching the headlines about the leak of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs Wade draft, I realize, more than ever, that we live in a mighty crazy, shaky world. If we only lived through the eyes of the news, you’d think the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Even in our own little…
Too Good to be True?
Have you ever been trying on clothes at a store and that outfit looked great in those amazing, magical store mirrors? You even might have thought “You’re looking 10 pounds thinner”! But at home and trying that outfit on, it was like “What was I thinking? What was I seeing?” And, what about those mirrors…
Need Peace? Forgive.
Mother’s Day is passed as far as the commercialized Mother’s Day is concerned. But, honestly, it’s okay for our mothers to be honored every single day. What a role model my mama was and still is today, 18 years past going to heaven. Yesterday, for a video presentation to her students, my daughter interviewed me…