Sep 23, 2013 | Conversation, Strength for Hard Times, The Afternoon Knows, Vision
When we quit for the right reasons, we are changed. Something breaks inside of us when we finally say, ‘No more.’ The Holy Spirit births a new resolve within us. We rise above our fears and defensiveness. The hard soil of our heart becomes soft and ready...
Aug 30, 2013 | Community, Conversation, Faith, Practicing Love, Strength for Hard Times, The Afternoon Knows
“There is a time, it seems, in our walk through the wilderness, that we must risk walking in darkness and silence. It is at this time we must take our understanding and comprehension of things as they seem, fold it in our backpack and walk with only the hand of...
Mar 13, 2013 | Caregiving, Conversation, Faith, HaveEyestoSee, Life Coaching, Love 365, Other, Parenting, Practicing Love, Prayer, Strength for Hard Times, The Afternoon Knows, Trust in God
Good defined (n), “profit or advantage; worth; benefit.” Defining good. It’s taken me quite awhile to finally process the past few months and actually write this. “Alot” has occurred since August, when my mom was first diagnosed with a...
Mar 29, 2011 | Faith, Identity, Life Coaching, Marriage and Family, Other, Parenting, Prayer, Strength for Hard Times
It is often when we are swallowed up in God that we find our true selves. We discover our true identity, not as doers, but as be-ers. Our tasks in this life boils down to: ‘Be still, and know that I am God.’ Indeed, this is why so many of us avoid silence...
Feb 9, 2011 | Conversation, Faith, HaveEyestoSee, Life Coaching, Marriage and Family, Other, Parenting, Practicing Love, Prayer, Strength for Hard Times
“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” -Stacia Tauscher A Kiss from God So, right in the middle of Brooke’s Christmas brain surgery recovery, God dropped a little package of love named Esme. For...
Jan 24, 2011 | Conversation, Faith, HaveEyestoSee, Identity, Life Coaching, Love 365, Marriage and Family, Other, Practicing Love, Prayer, Strength for Hard Times, Vision
“Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” (Matthew 9:17, NIV) Thoughts from my He(ART)...