It’s funny, my life is in major flux, including the mystery about where I should call “home” and I am back to living day by day in financial survival mode without a job, and the amazing thing … I haven’t laughed more in years. Joy surrounds me. Love holds me. Really, all is good with…
Read moreThe Great I AM – A tiny, helpless infant
A couple of nights ago I attended a Christmas concert at Vision of Glory Lutheran Church in Plymouth, MN. One of the vocalists sang the beautiful song “Mary Did You Know?” It is my favorite Christmas song by far. Every time I hear it I am deeply moved by the reality of the words. Here…
Read moreGood News! Many are Following Jesus Here
As you can see from the FOLLOW video located at this website http://www.elevationchurch.org , something quite extraordinary is going on at Elevation Church in Charlotte. I’m seeing that more each week. My daughter, age 28, had been through life-threatening lows lately and recently gave the direction of her life to Jesus. She found this rather “new”…
Read moreA Time for Faith – for Lovers of God
For the last month I’ve stepped into another unwanted transition. It isn’t the first time I’ve been in survival mode within five years, but this might be the bleakest. Things could be worse, of course, so I count my blessings, but not without questioning the Lord in my prayer times. Hmm…I’ve wondered, for example, why I’m encountering what begins as particularly well-suited…
Read moreDate setting “prophets” don’t know God very well.
On May 20th, one of my adult children asked me what I thought about news-making Christians who thought they’d be the next day ”raptured” … which is to say they’d be “swept up and away and into the clouds of heaven, caught up in the air with Jesus.” I told him I thought nothing of it since Jesus himself had said,…
Read moreA Living Now Word from God in a Dove Candy Wrapper
I confess — I haven’t felt like writing a thing and have been waiting many weeks to be inspired enough to write a decent blog post. I’ve been in a spiritual desert. You know, when life gets hard, troubles mount, you feel like you can’t bear for another day the life-draining job and crashing family issues. Worse, you barely even think about God, He’s distant…
Read moreMy Good News about THE Good News!
I spent a few months writing the sequel to God in Sandals last year, just after my 4th visit to Israel. Oh, it was all in God’s plan that I’d write again….little did I know when I made the plans for my trip to those historical, sacred places I described in the book. I left Israel…
Read moreHIS KINGDOM COME: A Novel
WestBow Press released HIS KINGDOM COME live on the Internet just before Christmas. I received the author’s review copy the third week of December. What a gift! This is so exciting. I pray you’ll enjoy this book’s “look inside” feature and then, if you like what you’ve seen, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE pass on this widget (the http…
Read moreWhat Most Pleases Jesus – for Lovers of God
A few days ago while I was praying, the Lord showed me something that still has me thinking and rejoicing. I felt desperate for Heaven—wanted to see Jesus—you know, that passion that rises up in His beloveds sometimes because we have the “gift” from the Holy Spirit that causes us to desire Him so much….
Read moreDivine Loving Mystery – for Lovers of God
Looking for something in an old box stored away, I came across a few prayer journals. I started looking through them. One from November 1996, made me smile. I don’t usually do this, but I thought I’d share what I just read from it, a prayer/poem I wrote to the Lord fourteen years ago. ***…
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