"Summer is the time when the soul can sit still and soak up the sunlight of God's goodness." – Unknown There’s something sacred about summer. The way the sunlight stretches across the sky just a little longer, as if heaven itself is holding...
Gloomy clouds dawned in the morning sky yet again. The Coronavirus closures coincided with weeks of rain and gray skies that are atypical for sunny Southern California, where we pay the weather tax. The dreariness outside and relentless bad news...
"Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy...
If we've ever needed You, Lord, it's now, Lord, it's now, We are desperate for Your hand, we're reachin' out, we're reachin' out, If we've ever needed You, Lord, it's now, Lord, it's now, We are desperate for Your hand,...
In my last post (http://wp.me/p4RztF-PI), we focused on Seeking God First each day as the foundational ingredient in my Secret Sauce. Today, I'd like to add the rest of the fixings. Unfortunately, we are not exempt from trials and trauma. Our favorite Bible characters were not...
365 days. My tunnel journey began one year ago last week. I had to make my way through the dark. Unfortunately, there was no way around it—one slow step at a time. Today, as I continue to plod on, I realize this...
My oldest child arrived nine days late. Labor lasted over twenty-four hours until my doctor performed an emergency Caesarean, transporting my baby boy from my womb into my arms. This dark womb was a comfortable, familiar home; leaving was not what...
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa My light lost its shine during a trying time around nine years ago. I was in the abyss of homeschooling three wild...
"A single candle can both defy and define the darkness." Ann Frank Imagine crowds of people standing in an eerily moonless night, surrounded by every form of Evil. The sound of striking matches quickens as the smell of sulfur wafts through the...
Picture the hostile faces of the Pharisees, their blood boiling as Jesus spoke about Himself: 12Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will...