Category: Devotionals

Day 12 It’s Christmas Eve, by the time you read this it will be Christmas. Merry Christmas!! These twelve days have been so meaningful to me. I have had good and bad days, but through this process I have been forced to stop and really think about what, and in some cases who, I am…

  Day 11 We got to see someone really special to us today. Someone we haven’t seen in over a year. My nephew. He has been in California and on deployment. He is a Marine and we couldn’t be more proud. My daddy was especially emotional when he saw him, tears of joy and sorrow.…

  Day 10 Today was beautiful.  I really can’t think of a better word to describe it.  It was filled with work, laughter, family, friends, gifts and homemade goodies.  And a few tears.  I heard a quote that I love.  I believe it perfectly summarizes how I want to live out the rest of my…

The small town where I live could pretty much be featured in the show Friday Night Lights. High School and College football is not just a past time, it’s a defining quality. How a person is identified is often decided by the colors he or she wears and may even determine their friend circle. Most wear their…

I went out early this morning for a walk. Mostly to clear my head, walking has become my therapy. I listen to praise music and pray. I pray for my family, friends and the ministry of this blog, I’ve probably prayed for many of you. This cloudy morning, the air was heavy and filled with…

Lately I’ve longed for peace. I find myself drawn to people and places that make me feel peaceful and relaxed.   We live in such a hectic, go as fast as you can culture there’s never enough time to sit and, well, do nothing else but sit. I am just as guilty as the next person…

I received such a wonderful affirmation from God today about my writing.   I started this so uncertain of whether or not I was supposed to really be doing it. I just needed an outlet for all of the emotions that I was experiencing. I wanted a place to express the lessons I was learning, a…

Dear Momma, I don’t like the small line that separates the two dates. As though the dash between your birth day and the day you left could somehow represent your entire life. It just feels so inadequate, so understated. I’ve contemplated this a lot lately, all that lies in the space of that dash, too…

This morning I was sitting in front of the dressing table trying to squint enough to see to put on my liquid eye liner. The lighting is different than what I am used to, so I was struggling. That and aging eye sight are the culprits. (If one eye seems a little more “dramatic” today,…

What does it mean to pray? What does that term mean to you? I’ve been thinking about prayer a lot lately. I’m realizing that I will always be learning how to pray and I could never explain all of its dimensions, especially in a short blog. But I know I am in desperate need of…

Lately I’ve been learning a lot about love. A crash course, really, apparently the Lord feels that I need more of it. And I don’t mean the term “love” that we like to throw around here in the south. For example, I say things like, “I love cheese grits.” And I do, but that is…

I believe we all go through times in our lives when we struggle with identity.  I mean, who are we really from one life season to the next?  A teenager, a young single, a young married adult, then children come along.  As soon as life seems to take on some kind of rhythm or familiarity, BAM,…

My Dear Daughter, Twenty one. How  is this possible? You know, I can hardly remember my life before you. Life has just been so much sweeter with you in it. Not easy, but so worth all the effort. Someone who doesn’t know us might read that last sentence and think that it sounds harsh. But,…

I have been so heartsick lately to read stories one after the other of men being caught in pornography, extra marital affairs, child molestation. What in the world is going on in our society? It feels like we live in a sex craved, depraved world. Oh wait, we do. I don’t pretend to understand the…