Inspiring Courage

Be Always Ready to Plant …

... whenever the wind of the Holy Spirit blows. I've known her for many years. We've shared many significant life experiences. Graduations. Career moves. Weddings invoking Your name, Lord. It wasn't until this week that I knew for sure... She doesn't yet know You. We were in a car for 90 minutes. Just the two...
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I Said It… But I Didn’t Really Mean It

Lord, Lord, Lord... These are times that try -- i.e., test, challenge -- our souls like never before. As a culture, we have been drifting (running?) away from You for decades. Our values (and hearts) shifting away from what You hold dear so we can embrace what we desire apart from You. Why are we...
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Wet & Wild! (Whew!)

First thing this morning, I asked what You wanted me to write about today, Lord. Something that would give You glory. I didn't realize Your answer would come through a God-encounter. Of the (almost) Life and Death kind. We decided to go fishing before church. Before most people were even awake. When fish (if we...
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Surpassing The T-Rex Defense!

Can anyone of movie-going age honestly say they were not the least bit intrigued by the premise of Jurassic Park, Lord? That dinosaurs could be brought back to life to interact with humans today? Intrigued, maybe... but not eager. Perish the thought!  :(  :)  Certainly makes a thrilling (and lucrative) storyline, though... Amen? I'll never...
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When Time Stood Still

For me, time had stopped. Or at least, my watch had. I went to the jewelry department in Sears. I didn't even know Sears had a jewelry department. I had gone there for a different reason altogether. But I also needed a watch battery. The sales associate helping me raved about their jeweler. So there...
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Felling Every Giant

In this new blog, Sundays are Son-days with You, Lord. Reflecting on one of the many God-encounters You and I have shared in the previous week... hoping it will bless others, too. Like this one... She had always towered over everyone and everything around her. A HUGE Blessing. But now she was dead... a Clear...
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The Sore Throat Revelation

It has been one full week since severe pain first gripped my throat, Lord. Pain like I have not felt before. Making it hard to swallow... and hard to speak. Hard to take in nourishment.  And hard to give it out... in spoken words, at least. Not moving into my head or into my chest....
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The Politics of Fear… and HOPE!

Oh, Lord... How amazing it is to see the hardening of so many people's hearts!  I see them and hear about them in nightly news broadcasts... and all over social media. The raw footage of protesters expressing their free speech. Regrettably, many who are doing so with violent rhetoric and violent behavior. The quiet, yet...
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Reaching For The Stars!

I must have gained a new level of Healing, Lord.  By Your grace, of course.  How else could it have happened? You have given me a Message to share.  Some dear brothers and sisters-in-Christ have challenged me to venture far beyond my comfort zone.  By taking the initiative to search out and contact people with......
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The Power of A Near-LIFE Experience

She wasn't supposed to be here.  Gianna Jessen. I just "met" her yesterday for the first time.  Through a video of her testifying before a government body in another country. She had been in the womb for 7.5 months when her mother sought an abortion.  Her amniotic sac was injected with saline solution, which should...
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