Every week my husband has the privilege of helping out with a ministry distributing food in the area to those who are in need. Usually, almost all of the food is given away without a problem. There are some days though (usually if there happens to be an excess of a certain type of produce … Continue reading
A number of years ago our family found ourselves in a relatively new season in which we had transitioned where we were living and ministering. I was in a somewhat vulnerable state, licking my wounds per se, from a previous season in which we had walked through some pretty heartbreaking circumstances and broken relationships. I … Continue reading
Recently we were reminding ourselves as we talked with our kids about how Jesus has healed each one of them: Child #1 – healing and restoration from polyarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, Child #2 – miraculously healing a calcaneovalgus deformed foot, Child # 3 – healing from food allergies, Child #4 – healing from no common … Continue reading
As I logged onto Facebook this morning, there was this memory that popped up on my timeline from six years ago: “Ah, a spitty-up, tired baby… a cranky, defiant two year old who likes to say no and throw fits tonight..a loud and outspoken four year old who decides to pee in time-out instead of … Continue reading
Canning. I’ve been canning for probably the last 9 years or so, but most of my experience up until lately has been with water bath canning high acid and/or sugary foods like tomatoes, pickles and jams. I have wanted a pressure canner for years, but have never wanted to spend the money to buy one. … Continue reading
Juggling. Go ahead and imagine with me balls or scarves continually being tossed around in a perfect circular arc, waiting to be caught…again, and again, again. It’s great to go someplace like the circus and watch someone who is a master of juggling perform this seemingly impossible feat, isn’t it? I always hold my breath, … Continue reading
My oldest daughter came in yesterday afternoon after playing with the dogs in the backyard and excitedly showed me a perfectly round, ripe, red cherry and exclaimed that the cherries were ready to be picked. I had just been out by the orchard a few days before and hadn’t seen any ripe cherries at all, … Continue reading
One of the things that our church hosted this past weekend was something called a Women’s Encounter. We have participated in a few other Women’s Encounters this past year that another church had hosted but we felt the Lord impressing that we needed to branch off and host some Encounters ourselves, in order to reach … Continue reading
Today I am going to talk a little bit about The Fruits of the Spirit and how those things are related to being a man or woman of God. What does this mean though? Is it when we are doing everything right? Like going to church every week or doing what people expect of us, … Continue reading
“Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. 2I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. 3You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and … Continue reading
