Leadership training for squirrels??? I wouldn't have believed it, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes! For many years now, we have enjoyed watching birds of many kinds and colors partake of a tasty feast from our bird feeder out front. It hangs from a spot on a tree limb far away from...
What an amazing gift it is, Lord, when You give us "eyes" to see beyond The Veil. There is a Reality all around us. A Reality we usually cannot see with our natural eyes. Our five senses will only take us so far. We who are people of Faith know there is more -- so...
Oh, Abba... Sometimes You answer my prayers so quickly, You take my breath away! How is it, then, that I can so totally miss The Answer... even when it is staring me right in the face? This morning, our time together was sweet. I can't even totally reconstruct how my "heart talk" with You went. Sometimes, there...
What has no teeth, but lots of "bites"? What has no mouth, but won't stop talking? :) What has no feet, but runs fast enough to reach the whole world in the blink of an eye? Answer: Your NEW WEBSITE for the work You are calling me to do, Lord -- Champions of Destiny! By Your Abundant...
The Power of A Story Lived. Our past is our history. For some, it is A Story Inflicted. A Story Endured. A Story Survived. A Story To Be Forgotten. But if we look closely enough, with the hindsight that is often 20/20, we may see that our past is really His-story (Your story, Lord) in our...
How could I have lived for so long, Lord -- more than half of the years I could reasonably "guesstimate" I would live on Earth -- and not realize I was a closet cat-lover??? I guess because I never was one... before Skippy. Maybe it was the timing of her sudden appearance some eight years ago, or the circumstances...
Sometimes I grieve deeply at the success Your enemy has had in misrepresenting You. And how that "pendulum" can swing widely from one extreme to the other. I met a Christian recently who grew up in a church where all that was taught about You was anger and judgment and vengeance. I can't help but...
Today, I'm feeling a little like the ten spies may have felt after scouting out the Promised Land. They saw giants in the land and gave a "bad report" because they saw themselves like grasshoppers... and they were terrified. I was at a meeting yesterday where I am considered the Leader. I was in the...
I've been dreaming a lot lately. Trouble is, I don't remember most of them. I make the transition from dream-filled sleep into semi-consciousness... still vaguely aware that I have had a rather involved, content-rich dream. Yet, in the imaginary blink of an eye (since my eyes are still closed), it vanishes. Until last night. I...
FEAR has been defined as "False Evidence Appearing Real." But what if the evidence isn't false? I have never seen You bring sudden destruction on a land and a people in clear and immediate fulfillment of words You spoke through Your prophet (e.g., rivers of blood, plagues of frogs and gnats and flies and hail and locusts...
