Pearls on My Pillow

I think I was about 16 the first time I heard “My Father’s Eyes” by Amy Grant. It was one of my favorite songs back then, but I can honestly say I have probably not heard it in 15 or 20 years. Yet it has been stuck in my head the last couple of days, and I cannot get…

     Can you remember? Think back. The wind is blowing so hard you can hear it whipping the rain angrily against your window. The thunder is so loud you’re fairly certain it’s coming from inside your bedroom not outside in the storm, but you’re not going to peak outside the blankets to find out. The lightening is so close…

I can’t seem to get Matthew 14 out of my mind. There is some powerful stuff there! Yesterday I wrote about Herodias. God has used her to show me that my focus cannot be on the people around me and the emotions they invoke in me with their actions. Ah, but His message doesn’t stop there! In the next…

Our pastor challenged us to read a chapter of the New Testament every day this year so I’ve been reading Matthew lately. Have you ever noticed how God seems to slip His message into every sermon, every passage, every devotion you read or hear during that time? Yesterday’s passage was Matthew 14 (since it January 14, of course!). I’ve…

A blog. I mean, seriously, blogs are for the young, hip generation. I enjoy reading them, but writing them? I’ve been arguing with God about this one for quite awhile now. But the other day God told me to quit being such a Moses (in so many words), and, well, here I am. God’s been speaking to me a…

I am 29 – going on 49.  Since all of my children are in their 20’s now, I guess I am going to have to say good bye to mine.  That’s ok.  I’ve lived too much life to be 29.  I have been married 29 years for goodness sake, and I wouldn’t change that for anything!  I have the…