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Our Ability to Create

Not everybody feels they have the ability to create.

I disagree. I believe we all have the ability to construct something positive from whatever materials we have to work with. Every day we are creating something of importance.

How will you release your creative instincts? Ideas today on my blog and podcast.

Rebuilding

When tragedies, losses, and tough circumstances turn our lives upside down, we don’t have to stay there.

What does it take to start over?

Today on my podcast and blog, we’ll explore the resilience of the human spirit. We’ll look at some amazing things we can discover as we sort through the wreckage of a tattered, torn life and seek to rebuild.

What it Means to Love

Love. We use the word so casually – almost superficially – sometimes even flippantly.

“I just love this dress!”

“I love chocolate ice cream.”

“Don’t you just love those people?”

We use the word so glibly, and in the process, often reduce it to levels of lustful desire or small talk.

But what does it mean to love? To give the gift of love?

Turn Your Gravel Pit into a Beautiful Life Garden

In the late 1800s, Robert Butchart began excavating limestone from a quarry behind the home where he and his wife, Jennie, lived. When all the limestone was extracted, all that remained was a huge, ugly, expansive hole in the ground.

But Jennie was not willing to let it lay there discarded, ugly, and debased. With the help of architects and landscapers, topsoil from neighboring farmland was brought in and a beautiful design created.

We, too, have our personal gravel pits — those places where we feel scarred and flawed. How can we transform our seemingly hopeless situations into satisfying, productive and pleasing futures?

Read on to find out…

Moving Through the Seasons of Life

Throughout life, we will experience different seasons, with their unique expectations, challenges, and rewards. Each of the four seasons – winter, spring, summer, and fall – offers something distinctive for us to enjoy.

In our seasons of life we will experience grief as well as exciting adventures. What season of life are you in right now? What challenges are you facing?

Today on my blog and podcast, discover how to gain peace and hope for the coming days.

Hope: A Gift We Can’t Refuse

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When everything around us seems to be crashing, and we think nothing else could possibly happen, it invariably does.

Problems have a domino effect – one problem creates another and so on. At such times, we cry out to God for strength and hope.

Throughout scripture, we read stories of God gracing His people with faith, hope and trust. It says something good and desirable can happen, even in the worst of times.

Today on my blog and podcast, I’ll share eight qualities of hope.

God Gives Us Hope

In those frantic days between good health and the rapid advance of a brain tumor that took the life of my husband, I found the inner strength I needed to deal with our crisis within the book of Psalms.

The psalmist spoke the words my heart was experiencing. He articulated my pain, tears, and cries for help, both before death and later, as I grieved my loss.

In my book, A Love So Great, A Grief So Deep, I shared my story and described hope as a “double-edged sword.” Others shared stories of loved ones who survived, and I was stirred to believe my prayers, too, would be answered and my husband would survive, even though deep down, I could not ignore the symptoms before me.

Why It’s Important to Define What You Believe In

There is a spiritual side to all of us, whether we believe in a God, are a Christian, an atheist, or agnostic.

If you look online you will find numerous definitions and descriptions of spirituality. Basically, it is a recognition that there is more, something greater, than just us.

What do you believe and why? Perhaps you never considered the importance of asking yourself this question. And yet our beliefs influence every aspect of our life – the decisions we make, the people we hang out with, and the lifestyle we choose.

Are you able to define what you believe in and the value you place on those beliefs?

Where Do You Find God?

God has been intervening, loving, instructing, forgiving, and rescuing his people from the beginning of time.

Today on my podcast and blog, I’ll share stories of how God intervened in the lives of Elijah, Naaman, Job, Joseph, Paul, Peter, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

If you are struggling right now, reach out to God and discover His comforting arms. The book of Psalms can help you learn how to talk with God.

Lessons We Learn From the People of the Bible

The Bible is full of stories about people who do hurtful, vindictive, and destructive things. So why should we read it?

Today on my podcast and blog, we’ll discuss what we can learn from each of these biblical people, that will benefit us:

  • Cain
  • Noah
  • Jacob
  • Joseph
  • Samson
  • Rahab
  • Gideon
  • David