Being Light – A Story

The following is a true story. As I was leaving Sunday school, I was chatting with a friend, and I could tell that Jim was kind of hanging around like he wanted to talk to me.  I’m not sure if I had even spoken to him before.  I had been gone for two months that...

Being Light

It was an unusual place to be in complete darkness.  My husband and I had planned a little Valentine’s Day getaway last weekend just for the night at a nice hotel only thirty minutes from our home.  We had checked in that afternoon, gone out for a wonderful dinner,...

Being Salt

Whatever it was that they had, I wanted it. They had peace and didn’t worry all the time. They had a healthy self-esteem and felt good about themselves. They had a special joy about them. These things did not describe my 16-year-old self. I had never met anyone like...

An Unexpected Purpose

“Purpose?  Me?  This blog doesn’t apply to me.  God could never use me.” I’m confident that there are women who will find this blog and will think that – that God can never use them and therefore there is no great purpose for their lives.  Maybe it was something they...

Trusting God in 2015

There is something wonderful about the start of a new year, isn’t there?  A clean calendar and planner to fill in.  The promise of a fresh start and the anticipation of what the year will hold.  Maybe relief that the last year has ended because it was full of...