One Third of One Second

That’s how long it takes the human eye to blink.  Just 300-400 milliseconds out of the 1,000 milliseconds that occur in one second. For some, it’s the time it takes to leave this world and enter… The Next. Like whoever was traveling in the Jeep we passed today on the Interstate. The Jeep that had

Cup Running Over!

What do 450 miles, one lightning bolt and a credit card approval for $6,619.00 have in common? They are all highlights –or lowlights — in our trip south today. The GOOD News is… We’re halfway to Florida.  Falling asleep at 6:30 PM.  Dinner already settled in our tummies.  Trying to stay up late enough so we

One Price Fits All

We were on the phone, calling to make a future hotel reservation.  At one of our favorite stopovers.  Nothing fancy, just convenient… and pet friendly. 🙂 We were about to book our reservation when we asked what we thought was a straightforward question: “How much is the room?”  Our mouths dropped open in shock.  A 50% increase

Extra-Ordinary Prayer!

Sometimes the “Out of The Ordinary” generates Excitement… even Thrills.  Sometimes it provokes a sense of Adventure. Sometimes the kind of Surprise that delights the soul. Yet sometimes, it ushers in a sense of foreboding.  Like right now. My beloved business colleague and I should have been on the phone for forty minutes by now.  Catching

Eyes That Do Not See

She had said the words a thousand times before.  Maybe even a million. Was anyone listening? I haven’t flown much in recent years, Lord, but every time it seems the same.  Like yesterday. Flight attendants are called the most important “ safety equipment” aboard a commercial airplane.  They are so much more than glorified waiters and

AUDACIOUS Prayers!

You’re teaching me to pray BIG, Lord.  BIGGER today than yesterday.  Growing my small faith so it is as “small” as a mustard seed! “Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.  Nothing will

Sowing Deep

The opportunity I had prayed for materialized like an object being “beamed up” by the transporter on the Starship  Enterprise. The opportunity You had prepared for me, Lord, before the foundation of the world.  The opportunity to give my testimony of Your Life-saving Grace to these teenagers whose hopelessness has hardened their hearts to You.

The Prayer Altar at Publix

Today, it was just inside the entrance. I hadn’t planned it that way.  But You had, Lord… since before You created the earth.  What an amazing thought!  That something we might think is so “random” was planned out long ago by the One whose plans will not be thwarted. “For I know the plans I

Majestic Migraine!

I don’t remember the last time I was so tired, Lord. We returned from the Bahamas today at mid-afternoon.  I rushed home and scurried around with a fair amount of house cleaning and bed making for beloved extended family members arriving today for a reunion. Several problems needing immediate attention.  A leaking air conditioner, generating

Disconnected!

Lord! How can I be so connected to You and so disconnected from the world??? Last night, I traveled to a more remote island — Current Island — with no Internet.  But it had those who were the very reason we are here in the Bahamas:  The children of Zion’s Children’s Home. It has been