Real Talk About Relationships
When I think of how much God loves me, I am lost for words. Have you experienced love? I think we have all had at least one experience with love – parental love, sibling love, love in friendship, and of course, romantic love. Now I want you to think about this for a moment – … Read more The Measure of His Love
That distressing moment when you have been praying earnestly but the answer is not coming as fast as you need it… A few weeks ago I began asking myself some hard questions. At the beginning of the year, the Lord had promised me a couple of things – really important things. Three months into the … Read more Lord, Why Aren’t You Answering My Prayers?
Isaiah 59:2a “But your iniquities have separated you from your God…” (NIV) I looked ahead, and all I could see was darkness. No, wait – all I could feel was darkness, Because the sun was shining, The birds were chirping, And life was moving on as usual. Inside, however, was all dark. I had … Read more No Mercy Like Yours
One year since the diagnosis…one year of learning more about God and how He works in our lives… He laughed jovially as she made faces at him. He ran around happily as she did her chores. No words. Just laughter. He was such a happy baby, growing well and achieving all his milestones. His first … Read more My Autism Awareness Month – One Year Later
If God calls me today, how will I respond? Am I ready to obey Him regardless of the assignment? When I was in primary school, I did not want to be a teacher. For some reason, I didn’t believe that teaching was an important job. When I went to high school and we were told … Read more When He Calls…
Figuring out where, why and how God is going to work in one’s life is something that all Christians battle with. Confusion… confusion… confusion… Picture this… The Lord sends you one way, then after a while, closes the door and sends you in a different direction. And then, just when you are settling in, He … Read more The Hard Questions
God of mysteries – I don’t understand your ways, But I choose to trust you. I don’t understand how you knew me before I was born, And you saw my frame being formed in my mother’s womb I don’t understand why your plan is sometimes painful, confusing and difficult, Yet you charted everything out … Read more God of Mysteries
I’m having a chat with myself today, asking, “So, control freak, who is REALLY in charge of your life?” Today I was having a chat with someone, and this person made a statement – “I wish I knew what God was thinking right now.” Have you ever thought the same thing – wondered what on … Read more Musings of a Christian Control Freak
We often find ourselves desiring other people’s gifts for ministry, forgetting that what the Lord has given us is good enough… I know many of you rolled your eyes when you saw the title of this article, and thought, “How can she have the audacity to make such a statement when it is God who … Read more It’s my gift – not yours!
Fresh wind of the Spirit, Blow afresh on me… I feel so thirsty, so tired, so weary, The journey you have sent me on, Lord, Has taken its toll in ways that only you can understand. So my prayer is… Fresh wind of the Spirit, Blow afresh on me. The dust of the … Read more Fresh Wind of the Spirit