Loving God, Loving Others, Loving Yourself, and Loving Life
“Because of the tender mercy of our God, with which the Sunrise from on high will visit us,‘To shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death’ to guide our feet into the way of peace.” Luke 1:78-79 I have heard many names for Jesus: Ancient of Days, Anointed One, Lamb of God,…
Music speaks to me. It affects my thoughts and feelings. The beat and rhythm of music works into the core of my physical being. It joins with the beat of my heart, the ebb and flow of my breathing, the blink of my eyes and becomes a part of me. But it’s more than that….
Over the past week we have recorded our story – past to present, owned our story, and been challenged to boldly tell our story. My final challenge to you and to myself now is to bravely surrender the pen and allow God to be the author of the rest of your story. Trae Kendrick, in…
Now that we have discovered our story and owned our story it is time to share our story! The most powerful tool that we have to share Jesus Christ with others and to help them understand His perfect love is our own story. I don’t have a dramatic story that will hold people on the…
As you discovered your story in our timeline exercise in Part 1 – Discover Your Story; I’m sure you realized, as I did, that there were some wonderful high areas and some dreadfully low areas and then quite a bit of just regular living life areas. There are seasons of joy and sorrow, choices that…
There have been a few times in my life when I feel that God so strongly desired for me to hear His voice that He repeated Himself over and over until He got my attention. Three times God has repeated Himself over the past few weeks with the same message spoken through three different friends…
It’s amazing what God will share into the depths of your soul when you get still and listen. God doesn’t want a new me. He wants me to be what He designed before I was ever born. He wants me to take all the experiences that have brought me to 2015 and use them to…
My youngest daughter just turned 20! I wish that I could play the entire movie of those 20 years in my head in slow motion. Milestones like this have a way of working into my soul and causing a tremendous amount of reflection. I admit that I may reflect on the past a little too…
What is Christmas…really? Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year. Many of my most precious memories center around the holiday season. As the years have gone by I have watched society attempt to steal away the most precious parts of the holiday season; faith and family. The secular world has actually done…
This post actually appears today, May 31, 2014, as a Letter to the Editor in the Corsicana Daily Sun Newspaper. It means a lot to me so I wanted to share it with my blog friends. I wrote…. I am retiring from teaching at the end of this school year and I would like to…
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