A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
Oscar Wilde:
“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
“You do not love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.”
Mark Twain:
“One is apt to overestimat…
Eric spoke of the trial of inconvenience and the faltering steps of ministry. “…something comes up and all you want to do is go home and have a cheeseburger or go to a Target and pick up dental floss without having to factor in a six hour drive in both…
The other night I was lying in bed and the skin at the back of my knee was itching like crazy. There wasn’t a bite or a rash or anything, I think the air had just dried my skin to the point of feeling unmercifully itchy. I scratched, calmed, scratched…
I wanted to put a craft spotlight on our MOPS bulletin board this month and I wanted to offer something the mom’s could do for Valentine’s Day.
I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for on Pinterest or Google, so I made my own and took lots of p…
We do more harm in letting little things go undisciplined and then allowing them to build up to anger inducing punishment, than we do in correcting the little things before they become actions that cause undue chastisement.
18 (A)Discipline your son while there is hope,
And do not desire [a]his death.
Footnotes:
Proverbs 19:18 Lit. causing him to die
Proverbs 19:18
King James Version (KJV)
18 Chasten thy son…
I’ve been listening to a sermon from last weekend about order.
It’s a revelation to me.
I’ve always believed that God is a God of order. This sermon laid it out in front of me in perfect timing. I was struggling. Struggling to believe I could…
Like many of you, I was not born thankful. It’s not a genetic trait that can be passed on from generation to generation. It has to be taught, it is learned in many ways, and it isn’t something we can simply define and then apply.
Driving to the camp site to speak to some lovely ladies about leadership, I knew I was not up to the task. I knew that I was not the leader I wished to be and therefore, I was certainly unqualified to share the intricacies of the subject.
Yet, here…
Gripping string I watched his hands wind and pull, sensitive to wind hundreds of feet above his reach.
I had told him how to hang on. How to hold tight but give when needed. When there’s too much slack, we pull the string and step backward until…
I mentioned in Saturday’s post that I spoke at a women’s retreat. It was a half hour segment of a retreat called, “The Vision” that our church does each year.
Though my preparation time was limited, I walked up to the podium extremely confident ab…