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Not Just Me

Humility is needed for submission. Now it's not just submission like being weak, or as a negative connotation has been associated with the word "submission". Submission as, "yielding to the authority of another", as Barbara Hughes mentions in her book. Disciplines of a Godly Woman. (hint hint, that's my current read 🙂 - a great [...]

The Newness

Being able to just sit together at a city park for hours - I feel like a child with no worries.Hakuna Matata - what a wonderful phrase,Being able to find time to send a quick message, check in, a pick-me-up;He makes me smile. Inspired? I'd say so, again, for real. The little things through the [...]

Focus

Keep my eyes on You,Point my heart to Your graceThe love You bestowdaily,hourly, always. To see You in things, people, situations - takes focus. Magnify the important,crop out the extra noise,focus. Quiet the voices that detract from the focal point,Adjust the lens to see...to see all of me, all of You - Life in front [...]

It’s Words

It's in words I find healing, Words where I find hope. It's a world I find meaning,A way I can cope. All the noise around me,gets me caught up and stunned.I get speechless and tears run down,It's not always fun. It's in words I find faith, Where God's love resides,A space I can trust, A [...]

Pursue

It's time to be present, it's time to breathe.God knows this is what I need to take it all in.To appreciate the world I live in.Not to be of the world but to live in the world. "Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal [...]

Home

When home is anywhere with your furry best friend.When home is peace and quiet. When home is the sound of a winter breeze... There is a difference between house and home. A house is an architectural building where people live, whereas a home is a place where one feels safe, secure and can belong. When [...]

Joy of the Lord

The thought that resonated with me throughout the week has been, "The joy of the Lord is my strength." Thanksgiving weekend started off with praise team practice, followed by a humbling and moving worship service with my church. Last Friday marked 1 year since I had also been a part of the worship team for [...]

Be Unstuck

Be Unstuck

We can find ourselves at a crossroads when we are in the valley of decision. There's this concept called, the "'knowing-doing gap' - the experience of knowing the best thing to do, but doing something else anyway." (Pfeffer, Jeffrey. The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action. 2000. Harvard Business School Press). In [...]

Two old Friends

Two old Friends

I feel at home when I'm with you I go back and wonder what life would have looked like had I made different choices but choices were made and life happened yet through nearly 10 years later people moved, got married, had children and here we still are friends, good friends who have always genuinely [...]