Jan 2, 2016 | Blog, Conversation, Faith, HaveEyestoSee, Life Coaching, Love 365, Marriage and Family, Other, Parenting, Practicing Love, The 12 Practices, The 12 Practices
Visiting the Archives Happy New Year! Here’s to a 2016 filled with JOY. I’m visiting the archives today because my #MYONE WORD for 2016 is LAUGH, drawing from Proverbs 31:25 (NLT), “She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without...
Apr 4, 2015 | Bible Study, Devotions, Faith, HaveEyestoSee, Other, Practicing Love, Prayer, Trust in God, Waiting
The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn’t the end. Jesus didn’t escape from death; he conquered it and...
Mar 31, 2015 | Bible Study, Devotions, Faith, HaveEyestoSee, Other, Practicing Love, Spiritual Formation
The Denial of St. Peter, Caravaggio, c. 1610, Metropolitan Museum of Art Notice the pointing fingers: the soldier’s one + the maid servant’s two. Peter denies Christ three times. Notice the positioning of Peter’s hands and the two fingers pointing...
Mar 30, 2015 | Devotions, Faith, HaveEyestoSee, Love 365, Spiritual Formation
“Like Mary, have you been criticized for something you’ve done?” -Women of the Passion, Session 2 The Extravagant Love of God Extravagant, adj., “exceeding what is reasonable or appropriate.” She must have loved Jesus so much. Jesus was...
Mar 22, 2015 | Bible Study, Conversation, Faith, HaveEyestoSee, Life Coaching, Other, Prayer, Strength for Hard Times
“Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are...
Feb 17, 2015 | Community, Conversation, HaveEyestoSee, Love 365, Practicing Love, Writing
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without...