Oh I have so many emotions rolling around in my heart and mind today as Claire will be giving her farewell talk at church in an hour or so. So much gratitude for the opportunity she will have to learn so much more about Jesus, and share her light and love as a missionary. I’ve…
Could making mistakes (or sin…a bigger and heavier word) actually be valuable? I believe it is!
I am doing the devotional on the Come Follow Me app again today, all about what the Parable of the Leaven means to me. This week for Come Follow Me we read all about many of Jesus’ parables and the one I’m talking about is in Luke 13: 20-21. It made me immediately think about…
I am in contact with many who are “heavy laden” lately. Sometimes I am the “heavy laden” one. Isn’t that just such a beautiful description? We are all carrying our own loads in so many different ways. So when I came across these verses they hit me so beautifully today (Matthew 11:28-30): I love that…
One of Claire’s friends gave a talk in church a while back about what I’ve started to call the “three levels of obedience.” (Yes I liked the thought enough to give it a name.:) He talked about how the FIRST LEVEL of obedience is where you are obedient because you are too nervous not to….
I’ve been thinking about this a lot…another beautiful quote from Richard Rohr. I wish I could remember which meditation it was part of so I could refer you to the whole thought, but I wanted to share at least this. I love the thought of “receiving.” It is a gift to learn to become a…
Just as time was running out for our first meeting at church today (it was testimony meeting where everyone can stand and share their thoughts about Jesus), Lucy stood up and headed up to the front to share her own testimony. And every time she does this (it’s been a while, but she used to…
In our Sunday School class today we talked about the wisdom that can be found in the book of Proverbs in the Bible. There are some pretty incredible things to ponder on in there. We ended the lesson with perhaps the most famous verse in Proverbs: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and…