Dreams
Daddy
Luke 1:68 “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them. Daddy struggled with an addiction to alcohol most of his life. Twenty four years ago he refused to let alcohol beat him so he beat it. With God’s help, he never took another drink.…
Read MoreSomething
My “to do” list for the weekend wasn’t long. Go to the grocery store. Done. My husband does a lot of this lately but my family says I do it better. Actually do something with the food I buy at the grocery store and cook a great meal. Done. This made my family very happy.…
Read MoreWant
This is an excerpt from a recent journal entry……… while on vacation: May 27, 2012 God, I want You to reveal some radical change in direction for my life. I want You to tell me to quit my job, homeschool my youngest, all while I continue to study for the CPA exam. I want to…
Read MoreHe Loves Me
You have to love yourself to love others. But loving yourself doesn’t mean getting what you want, when you want it. It doesn’t mean protecting your heart. Loving yourself doesn’t give you permission to hurt others on your way to the top. It means seeing what God sees. He knows the deepest part of…
Read MoreI Meant 2012
Every entry in my journal for 2012 is dated 2011. I see the blunder in previous journals. In the first few weeks at the beginning of each year I’ve done the same. I see where I’ve changed the numbers, trying to make it look as if I’d not made the error. Or I’ve erased it,…
Read MoreBoxes
There’s a box in the hallway. It doesn’t belong there. It holds a gift that we’ve not opened yet. It won’t fit under the Christmas tree and it’s too large to put in our closet. The first couple of days I bumped into it and stumbled over it. Now, I walk around it like it’s…
Read MoreThank You
Two friends. Five words. One minute or less. That’s all it took to encourage me yesterday. I received two separate messages from two different friends that said, “I am proud of you.” I thanked them but I doubt they realize how much their words meant to me. According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary the word encourage means…
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