Eight women from the Bible and the choices that shaped their future.
A Lesson on Gratitude From An Older Woman
Photo by Mike Italo on Pexels.com For forty years, I wandered in the wilderness with my brothers and our people. I had seen JEHOVAH do miraculous things. The Pharoah who once enslaved us was left devastated when the LORD led us out with a mighty hand. When I was young, I watched over …
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Free From Shame
John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. Shame is a topic of many parenting classes, and rightly so. Very few children grew up in a home where shame and guilt were not used as parenting tools. “How could you be so stupid?” “Why can’t you be more …
Retracing Our Steps
Life can be quite the journey, can’t it? Think about the last ten years of your life. Think of the highs where God taught you something that has stuck with you. Can you mark them as a map in your Bible? That is why I love writing in my Bible as I read. I do …
What If We Were Created to Praise?
What if we were created to praise? “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” A.W. Tozer Paul wrote it a different way: “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, …
A Song of Overcoming Grace
Sometimes He leads Through the hottest flames, Leaving hair unsinged And soul ablaze. But others, torches Alit for days, Down narrow paths For Nero’s way. At other times, He parts the sea. He dries the path Quite miraculously. But some will walk The path through dark, Trusting His leading, But leaving no mark. Engraved in …
A Song of Beauty: A letter to the Daughters of the King
Psalms 139:14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:marvellous are thy works;and that my soul knoweth right well. Dear daughter of the King, Walk with me into the Royal Gardens. Tucked within rows of rose bushes and walls of clematis are tiny blooms of violet that hug the ground, while brightly-hued irises …
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A Song of Privilege
Sing them over again to meWonderful words of lifeLet me more of their beauty seeWonderful words of lifeWords of life and beauty teach me faith and duty Beautiful words, wonderful wordsWonderful words of lifeBeautiful words, wonderful wordsWonderful words of life "Wonderful Words of Life" Eddy Arnold Cracker crumbs littered the carpet, but it was the …
A Song of Trust
"Tis' So Sweet to Trust in Jesus" Louisa M.R. Stead, public domain Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 This is a verse memorized as a teenager, so easy to call to mind, yet much more difficult to apply to real life. Would you agree? …
A Kansas Song
Wichita, Ks 9/12/22 Walking the dogs last night made me nostalgic as we came across a field of sunflowers. I am going to miss my home state. And then I took my dog’s pictures in the sunflowers like I used to take my children’s pictures in the bluebonnets back in Texas. They were good sports! …
His Song in the Night 