Devotionals

This is my beautiful mother and me about three weeks after my birth. I am the firstborn, so it was her first Christmas with a child.  I was a newborn and had no clue about the purpose of a tree or Christmas cards, or presents, but it didn’t matter to Mom. She and Dad decorated

Over two thousand years ago, Mary and Joseph were assigned a task. The task of introducing baby Jesus to this world. Imagine. Joseph requests the window seat. He can’t wait to show his baby the view. And for the first time, Baby Jesus looks out at a world, a world He created. Fellow passengers ooh

Warning: This is completely my opinion. Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine about decorating our homes for Christmas.  She has had her decorations up  since early November, and I was jealous as my decorations didn’t go up until the day after Thanksgiving.  We agreed on how seeing the decorations made us so

Call it a midlife crisis, but the past few months have been different for me. Not bad different. Just different different. I celebrated a birthday….and so did my son. He turned seventeen! I can’t think of a more fun and exciting season of life. And earlier this year, that same son got his driver’s license.

I guess you could say that our family loves celebrating Christmas. The day right after Thanksgiving, the Christmas tree goes up and Christmas music is blaring throughout the house every single day. In the midst of shopping and wrapping gifts, my oldest daughter Kayla shared some beautiful thoughts with me. I was so touched by

Encouraging thoughts from our friend, Renee Thomas. Driving home from a recent trip to Houston, my family and I turned on the radio. Although we were tuned to the right station,  we could only hear static.  But as we continued to drive and got closer to the source of the signal, the station became clearer and

Recently, a Christian musician has gained mainstream notoriety.  She has even been featured on a couple of popular talk-shows where she also had the opportunity to sing. The songs she chose were from her most recent album and were encouraging and uplifting.  She sang about the Savior. And people criticized her.  Christian people. Why did

I hope you have found encouragement from this series which highlighted the blessings that my family experienced in an unexpected season. In this conclusion, I wanted to share that for me, fear attempted to settle in when faced with the reality that we had lost the only income to support our family of five. Shame and

Hot showers, a warm cup of tea, fuzzy socks and straight irons….there is always something to be thankful for. Last Thanksgiving, I went over the A,B,C’s of gratitude. It’s a simple but fun exercise I learned from Max Lucado’s book, “Before Amen.”  In fact, it was so much fun, I thought to do it again! 

This month I have been recounting blessings that God has helped me to see when the season of layoff did not appear to be one we would be thankful for. When we were growing up, parents did not have conversations with children about the challenges they were facing. After all, a parent just wants to