That Will Preach! … Or Will It?

Whew.  Another fifteen hours “under our belts” today. What a blessing it is to finally be at Sanctuary Hill — our “home” away from home!  We traded our 94-degree day in Florida for a 61-degree day in the Blue Ridge mountains. Not too shabby!   🙂 After only partially unloading our vehicles and shopping for basic

Sleep Writing

Ten hours on the road today.  Hundreds of miles to cover. Traffic-paralyzing accidents.  Running on fumes… in more ways than one. One of those “wow” days when my communion with You kept going and going and going.  Like the Energizer Bunny on steroids!  Except now, when we’re finally in our hotel room, that Bunny is

My Latest Graduation Day!

I graduated from innocence fifty-six years ago.  It wasn’t my choice.  It might have even been earlier.  I just don’t remember. I graduated from high school forty-seven years ago.  Not part of the “in” crowd, but “in” the start of a Bigger Dream unfolding. I graduated from college forty-three years ago.  A trailblazer, with a year-long stint

“Miracle” Cure in Three Words

I have a friend who cuts right to the chase. No color commentary.  No waxing poetic.  Just the bottom line, if you please. My friend has a three-word prescription for almost everything in life. “Get over it.” Have a burden on your heart that’s hard to let go?  “Get over it.” Have a perceived limitation

Tears of The Best Kind

How do You do it, Lord?  Use the simplest of things — even a gesture — to move me so deeply? I was at church this morning.  It unfolded as I have come to expect.  A compelling message that challenged my mind and captivated my spirit.  Music that lifted me into Your Throne Room.  Worship that was

Woman in the Mirror

I was sitting face-to-face with a client. We were in a large room, surrounded by many people who did not know You, Lord… yet.  I was speaking passionately to my client, exhorting her to remember… “You KNOW who you are!  You KNOW who your Source is — Jesus!  Almighty God!  You KNOW what He is calling you to

A Florida Son-burn!

That’s what Your kind of Transformation is… isn’t it, Lord? A Son-burn on the inside. “”… [Jesus] will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”  (Matthew 3:11) A complete, major, thorough change into someone or something different.  An extreme, radical change. “… the old has gone, the new is here!”  (James 5:17) You have called me

Waiting For Waterfalls

Some days are all about Waiting. Waiting for Answers as our Questions hang in the atmosphere. Waiting on You, Lord. Hoping for Yes’s… Struggling with No’s… Accepting Not Yet’s… Learning to Trust. “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it… Yet the Lord longs

Unlikely Heroes

I knew I shouldn’t watch such a movie so late in the day.  How would I ever get to sleep? But how could I ever tear my eyes away from it?  When to do so would be… … a sacrilege? The movie was “Schindler’s List.”  I still shake my head with the horror of it

Will “The Real Me” Please Stand Up?

I love these seasons, Lord.  Seasons of Being.  Seasons of Becoming. Being Yours.  Becoming more… of all You have desired since You created the heavens and the earth.  For Your Glory.  For those You have destined me to love toward You.  For my blessing, now and forever. Who am I that You would even think of me,