Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him. Proverbs 10:26 Work. Discipline. Self-control. Responsibility. I live this blessed life where I get to work/do ministry from home. I love it but there are very difficult aspects of it. The most difficult being that…
Read MoreYou shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Deuteronomy 6:7 A woman stood up at a recent event I attended and said, “I always understood growing up…
Read MoreGetting off the fake stuff is hard. I am a tea-aholic. I drink several cups a day and I have been drinking it with Sweet and Low to sweeten it for years – lots of years. It is the way I like it. Last year my twin sister died of pancreatic cancer. She,…
Read MoreA foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain. Proverbs 19:13 He had been in the criminal justice system for three or four years and he was only fifteen. If the average middle class American had seen him they would think, “thug.” I can’t remember the…
Read MoreLet marriage be held in honor among all Hebrews 13:4a Sin stinks, often leaving an ugly mess for someone else to clean up. It seems I am seeing it in marriages a lot these days. This is my own challenge, from God’s word and to the church, to come with a mop. I grew up…
Read More…the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous. Psalm 146:8 For the record, I have nothing against hoodies. My favorite sweatshirt is a hoodie. During a very long drive, following my husband to deliver the car he was driving to…
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