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I really like these flowers.   I love the lush, green vine dotted with the delicate flowers.  I love the tall, stately, bright sun flowers that rest right below.  I drive past them every day. They are my ‘adios’ every morning and my ‘welcome home’ every evening. If you look carefully at the photo, you’ll notice that the flowers […]

https://youtu.be/ejs0NQEhdnk Catchy tune, isn’t it? When my kids were in pre-school, they used to sing some variation of this song. It was an earworm that I would have for days. And just when I would get rid of it, one of them would start singing it again.  Grrr… They had all kinds of songs like this- […]

Sometimes I feel like I live my life in cycles. The work/school week cycle. The cooking/grocery cycle. The laundry cycle.  You’re familiar with these cycles right?  It’s how I mark my days- that turn into weeks, that turn into months, and before I know it another year has gone by and I feel like all that […]

Our journey through the Bible this month has taken us through Judges and Ruth.  I have to say that when I got through Judges and moved on to Ruth, I did breathe a sigh of relief.  I was ready for a little lighter reading than that of Judges.  I was ready to read into the […]

I have been called many names in my lifetime.  Some good- sister, wife, mother, friend. Some not so good- brat (I have an older brother), antagonizer (by my brother), instigator (by my brother again- we really do love each other), arguer (brother or spouse, you pick).  I have probably even been called a donkey in […]

Earlier this year, through an unfortunate series of events, I was named the coach of my son’s basketball team.  Before we get all excited and talk about ‘girl power’, remember that I called it ‘unfortunate’.  I know nothing about basketball. Correction, I know that the ball goes in the hoop.  And as San Antonio Spurs […]

Do you know what it’s like to run on empty? The bed of this sermon is the story in Mark 5 of the demon possessed man who comes to Jesus. I started listening to it with one intention and and it transformed into a different animal for me.  There were so many beautiful points that spoke […]

‘Tis the season for love. Valentine’s Day will be here soon. The day of the year filled with chocolates, flowers, cards.  I have spent a few days reflecting on love- not necessarily in preparation for Valentine’s Day- more so as a way to sharpen myself. God’s love towards Adam.  When God came to commune with Adam […]

As January draws to a close, so does our reading of Job and Genesis.  I do have to admit that I enjoyed reading both books.  I liked traversing back through Genesis and re-reading some of the stories that I remember from Sunday school, particularly the story of Abram. The friend of God.  God calls him out […]

Well, here we are, a new year! Our study has started a new journey and we begin the year waist deep in book of  Job. Job is a fantastic book- all of the action is in the first two chapters and Job and his boys re-hash it for the 40 remaining chapters. Guys think that girls […]