It has been thirty-five years now, but I still remember it like yesterday. It was the morning after I had buried my first husband. I was only twenty-eight years old and he, thirty-three. I was now a single mom of two little boys, just turned four and seven. It felt as if the world had fallen apart. Not just my world, but the entire world. I sat in the middle of a great unknown in pure shock, fear and unbelief. How could this be and how would I survive? How would I take care o

Everyone faces difficulties in life. Not just bad hair days or especially crazy traffic days. Not just getting through the school line five minutes late only to learn that your little one forgot his book bag. The kind of days turned to months when everything has gone bad. You are overwhelmed and really feel like running away. Not many of us have experienced as bad of a day as David did when he returned to his home in Ziklag after a journey and discovered that his enemies, the

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1 I have been one who has enjoyed having a word or a phrase for the new year. I laugh remembering the phrase from 1995: “Coming Alive In Ninety-five.” I don’t remember if I did or not but I did “Stay Alive in Ninety-five.” Some years I chose a word that I hoped to become or an area I desired to grow in. Often the word given to me made no sense, but as the year unfolded I understood it mor

“For a wide door for effective service has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” 1 Corinthians 16:9 Go ahead. Peek around the door. That big door named 2021. Ready or not, here we are in 2021! We can stand in front of this door and fear what is on the other side, or we can step right in full of faith, knowing that God is there. You don’t have to stick your big toe in to test the waters. You can step in confidently and with certainty knowing that God is already there