My last blog post Everyone was a Baby Once dealt with the topic of forgiveness.  Today’s post will deal with forgiveness also.  In my own experience, sometimes forgiveness comes easily and at other times it’s more of a process.  Sometimes forgiveness is a daily choice you make and confess with your lips and the feelings don’t catch up till later.  Lately, God has me in a process of deep healing and forgiveness.  God has been […]

Recently, I was in a ministry class I take twice a week when our leader said something that really stuck out to me.  She said, “In their heart of hearts, nobody really means to hurt anyone.”  Although at times that doesn’t feel true, I understood the point she was making.  Brokenness and pain in a person’s life causes them to, in turn, hurt and break others. If you have dealt with the wounds of mistreatment, […]

Over the course of the past two years, freedom is a subject that has been on my mind and heart.  I have desired freedom in areas of my own life and I have desired freedom on behalf of family, friends and loved ones.  I have desired freedom to sweep across the church. Through this season, God has touched my heart with the promise of freedom.  The Lord has used various means to reiterate and confirm […]

About two years ago, I had a strange dream.  This will sound really crazy, but I had this dream of a lifeless body and someone was putting skin on it.  The colors in the dream were bright and vibrant.  It didn’t have a scary feel to it.  Of course, when I woke up, I was thinking, what in the world!  What did I eat before I fell asleep???  Later that day, I ran across this […]

2018 was a hard, hard year for a lot of people.  As I scrolled my newsfeed in the days leading up to 2019, I recognized that for many throughout the body of Christ this was year full of difficulties and trials.  For many, it was tough.  I know it was for me. As tough as it was, this year was the beginning of something beautiful.  This was also a year of refinement and if you […]

Because He said it, I Believe-Part 2: One Encounter with Father’s Heart Changes Everything Before I get into the next installment of this Because He said it series, I want to stop and share with you on a deeper level what this all means to me personally.  As we approach 2019, I am realizing more and more the tension between my feelings and my faith.  I have experienced more pain than I ever thought possible […]

Today marks the beginning of a series I am writing entitled Because He Said it, I Believe.  This series is a reflection of a personal journey I am taking with Jesus and I’d like to invite everyone to come with me on this ride.  This week, I was approached by a sweet woman at the end of church.  We had just listened to a captivating message about Lazarus and how God is calling dead things […]

Recently, I read the book Unashamed by Christine Caine.  In the book, she talks about the rubber band effect of shame.  The enemy of our souls will use anything to try to lead us back into captivity.  There are times that he will attempt to draw us into old patterns of thinking or behavior.  He will try to lead us back to the very things that God has already given us victory over.  Once we […]

This will be the second year we celebrate Thanksgiving without my brother.  Last year at this time, my life looked really different.  Despite the loss of my brother, I was able to enjoy very precious holiday time.  This year, all the circumstances are different. As a result, the holidays look different too.   Not bad, but yes, different.  There are loved ones that won’t share a turkey with me this year.  And, to be honest, that […]

In his book Experiencing the Father’s Embrace, Jack Frost talks about the importance of experiencing, abiding in and giving out the love of the Father.  I would highly recommend this book to anyone.  I am reading it for my third time and it has life-transforming potential.  One day this week I was thinking about some people and situations that I have been praying over for a long while.  Broken people and broken situations.  It should […]