What are you dreaming about? I’m not necessarily talking about sleepy-time dreams, but the dreams and aspirations that drive you to keep on pressing, keep on pursuing. Maybe you’re dreaming of becoming a doctor. Maybe you’re dreaming of becoming a home owner. Maybe you’re dreaming about the day you will become debt free. Or maybe, like me, you’re dreaming of becoming a successful entrepreneur. Just over … Continue reading Little by Little
I love to garden – to slip on my gloves and green rubber boots, and get out there to play in the dirt. Especially in the spring, when gardening energies run high. The blackberry patch invites me in to cut back last years fruit vines, and stake the canes that will bear this summer. My Weigela is already budding out and is sure to be overtaken with blooms by late … Continue reading Seeds planted, with high expectations for the harvest!
In my last post, I spoke of being ‘thumped’ and asked the questions: What has God called you to do that requires more of you? What are you facing that requires the very best that you have? As followers of Christ we are called put on the Armor of God and stand against the powers of darkness. I have written about this to some extent in … Continue reading Receiving Instruction (part 3)
I pray I am always honest with God, with myself, and with you – my reader. I never want to represent myself here as having figured out the answers to all of life’s questions, and/or be walking in constant victory over all manner of trials and temptations. Nor, I pray, shall I focus too much on the unanswerable questions of life. Why do we always feel this need to … Continue reading Receiving Instruction (part 2)
It happens to us all. You feel a prompting in your gut about something, or a light bulb suddenly goes off in your head. Sometimes you may have a full understanding of it, and immediately know what your response should be to that revelation. But other times it may be more akin to catching a glimpse of something out of the corner of your eye, or hearing a snippet of an instruction … Continue reading Receiving Instruction
Do you have a ‘valley of dry bones’ in your life? Passions and aspirations that once inspired you but are now dead and decomposed, their sun-bleached bones discarded into the dump heap? I do! Over the years, I’ve had many hopes and dreams that seem to come for a season (nearly overtaking me in their power and all-consuming passion), only to fade away into nothingness over time. Sometimes … Continue reading The Valley of Dry Bones and Failures
Putting Hope To Work 