Today is Mark 14:32-72 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark” What seemed to be Peter’s entire world was falling apart right in front of him. The One he left everything to follow, Jesus, had been arrested and wasn’t even trying to defend Himself. I can imagine the dismay and unbelief the enemy was enticing Peter with. Denying Jesus was one thing, but trying to prove you have had nothing to do with by cursing and swearing was another. Then the rooster crowed and Peter remembered what Jesus had told him. “He broke down and wept.” I have been where Peter was and I can ident ..read more

Today is a very special day for me. After many years of being held captive by anxiety and trying many things to get free, God heard my cry for freedom and set me free. After 6 years on anxiety meds, I no longer needed them. Two years ago on this date was my first day of freedom from taking both Prozac and Buspar. God has worked a change in my life, and for those of you who know me, it may be a bit of a surprise for me to tell you this. Because I have always been active in church and made it no secret that I believed in Jesus. In fact, I have thought throughout my adult years that I was living ..read more

“I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.” Romans‬ ‭6‬:‭19‬-‭2 ..read more

I had an awesome conversation with my niece Emily yesterday regarding evil. That conversation and a prayer request for a man who was contemplating and then eventually took his life yesterday has been on my heart this morning. So as usual what’s on my heart gets pecked out by my fingers in writing: “The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).” ‭‭John‬ ‭10‬:‭10‬ ‭AMPC‬‬ One of the biggest deceptions of Satan is to get us to thinking that he isn’t that big of a deal or that he do ..read more

I’m not sure when it started, the drift. My best guess is 5 years ago, maybe more.. That’s why it’s called a drift. You just slowly give up on or slowly release your determination to believe one way and shift another way. Then all of a sudden you wake up and realize you’re not where you used to be spiritually. Those around you may not even know you’ve been evolving slowly because you’ve been looking for and developing reasons to justify your unbelief. My drift has stopped! Thank God! The past couple of years God has pulled me out of it and set me back on course. But every once and awhile I fi ..read more

“At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever.” Daniel 4:34 NIV The madness of King Nebuchadnezzar – Self centered/ the King restored- God centered. Daniel 4 Me Centered: “God, I hate my mind!” – my prayer after another day drowning in anxiety. 8/31/2021 Emotions and feeling can take us on the wildest roller coaster rides of our minds. Sometimes the feeling goes beyond a little extra stress. Having lived with an anxiety disorder for years, I have felt like the cr ..read more

The Tea- “Gossip or personal information belonging to someone else; the scoop, the news …” -Urban Dictionary Conversations with my 21-year-old daughter tend to prove to me just how old I am getting: Faith: “Here’s the tea Mom…” ME: “The what?” Faith: “The tea… Gosh MOM! The tea, It means, the scoop on, what’s up with so and so, the…” and on and on… My mind goes to “I am getting old.” But I assure you the next conversation I was asking, “What’s the tea on…?” “The Tea” that was probably started due to tea parties or teatime where people sat together and talked about other people and all kinds ..read more

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say…?” ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭3:1‬ NIV We all hear “voices”. Before you think I’ve jumped off the deep end, let me clarify that statement. We are surrounded/ bombarded by so many opinions, statements, ideas every day. These are the voices that shout at us from the moment our eyes open until we close them in sleep, and if we are lucky, they don’t come to us at night in our dreams as well… nightmares. These voices are liars. They want to get us off course from the only way to get them ..read more