Today is national Spotlight on Slavery Day. Seems straight forward and simple, right? Human trafficking – sex trafficking, etc. So don’t be surprised to see people of all kinds wearing a red X on the back of their hand. But you know me… I’ve always got to think further and more outside the box than that…
Offense, Fruit and Gifts
Preface: I am doing a series on Offense over in my Facebook group, Going Beyond Shame and Guilt. This is what popped up today and you can see how it developed into this post, so I am sharing it with you all, too…
Back to the Word
So, I am finding out more and more as I go along that most people really want to have time for God. We want to have time to pray, really pray. And time to dig deeper into His Word on a daily basis. But, we have been taught that God is patient. So since our kids, our husbands, our jobs, our very culture isn’t patient, we procrastinate on digging deeper…
Handel’s Messiah Part 2 – Since By Man Came Death
I love that the songs are comprised of Bible verses and not only tell the story of Christmas, as we call it, but also lay out the gospel plan of salvation for everyone.
A tad bit of history: The king asked Handle to write a composition for Easter. Handel lived at the same time as Bach. But Handel was a bit more passionate about his work and the king liked his style…
FINISH ALL YOU HAVE STARTED
No, I’m not talking about us… goodness, my Momma was the greatest at starting to read books. She had over thirty books in her bookshelves in varying degrees of progress…
A HOT MESS, PART THREE
Let me start by pointing something out: it doesn’t matter if the mess was handed to you or forced on you by someone else, and it doesn’t matter if the mess was of your own making. A hot mess is a hot mess…
So, in recap from part one, being a hot mess isn’t necessarily a bad thing. We have all been there. It’s what we all have in common; what bring us together.
And it’s what brought God near and Jesus down to save us.
So we get the idea in our heads that we will live… let me hear you say it with me…
Have you ever really thought about where this phrase, ‘a hot mess’ came from? Interestingly enough, I watched a sermon just the other day that spoke about its origins.
In the 19th century, it had to do with…
MOVING DAY!
…That being said, the blog is moving over there… new address, new home, new graphics…
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2018 PART 1
A few years ago, I took my daughter to see a movie – or at least I thought it was a movie. It turned out to be a documentary by CNN called “Girls Rising”. It was a fantastically told…
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