The other day, my oldest daughter and I were practically rolling on the floor laughing! She had one of those moments when she realized … gasp … that she is becoming more and more like her mom. Hey, we’ve all had those moments – and not all of them are funny. But this one was!! Hysterical in fact! And in the telling of her own ridiculously silly … Continue reading 911 – What’s your emergency?
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
HOPE: a) to wish for something with expectation, b) a desire accompanied by confident expectation. I started blogging about 3 years ago and was greatly enjoying posting hope-filled blogs in which I shared my testimony, a few funny stories, and talked through challenges faced. But then I got too busy with other things for regular posting. I let my hope-filled blogging slip, and that wasn’t the … Continue reading Tethered to hope
This post was originally published under an older blog of mine in July 2011, just one month before I received a new job offer! Funny thing is that those very lessons I was learning back then (about guarding my thoughts and minding my tongue) are just as important today as they were then. I enjoyed reading this again, as though for the first time. I … Continue reading Staying Positive In Difficult Times
Putting Hope To Work 