There are appropriate times for group invites, open requests and sweeping offers. Addressing your wife is not one of them. She, by all means, deserves a private exclusive invite, to anything and for everything, big, small and everything in between including those moments you don’t think matter, especially those moments. Always make it personal, as … Continue reading A word of advice to husbands… be exclusive!
Often we are so consumed with how to love our neighbor, we forget to love ourselves, so that we can love our neighbor. Loving ourselves enhances our ability to love others. What do I mean by loving yourself? Loving ourselves well means taking care of ourselves, recognizing our needs and meeting them. Asking for help … Continue reading Loving Well
It’s hard to live in a natural world, when you know heaven exists. We crave it. Why? The only possible answer is: we somehow know heaven. Either we came from it, have experienced it, or have been made with it inside of our hearts. Like everything else our Creator has laced it into our frames. … Continue reading eternal gifts
Ok. Here we go again. Another major building project. We bought a 200 year old house many years ago. We had hoped the work would be done by now, but it’s taken longer than expected. Sometimes we have to wait on finances, or bank loans; sometimes we have to wait for vacation time, or cooperating … Continue reading God’s House
I think courage is doing something even when you are afraid. it's doing what needs to be done, despite how you feel. Sometimes it’s moving forward in the dark, without knowing, understanding or having assurance that you will come out on top. I think courage is doing what is right, not what is easy. Courage … Continue reading courage
“Sometimes you have to let go of everything to gain what God has shaped you for” – Elizabeth Thatcher, when calls the heart. I’m about to quit my job. I’ve been sitting on my resignation letter for weeks. I’m suffering great conflict over it. I have pages of reasons to leave, move on, let go … Continue reading Sometimes Quitters Win
There are so many things that no one tells you about life. So many details that only appear as you are stumbling over them. No matter how far mankind has come, no matter how many obstacles we have run, or hurdles we have jumped or computers we have hacked. Life remains, to those individuals who … Continue reading Life Continues
God does not always instruct his servants to do “easy” and “pleasant” tasks. The closer a servant is to God, the greater the fellowship with his joy and his grief, both God's glory and sufferings. This is expected of his disciples. Those who speak for God, must know him intimately and be united with His … Continue reading Doing the Hard thing
When God, “formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils, the breath of life; man became a living soul.”[1] When Jesus arose from the dead and appeared to the disciples, he breathed on them, and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit”[2] and “He will teach you all things.”[3] Then Pentecost descended upon … Continue reading The Effective Prayer Listens for God’s voice
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