Remember Whose you Are
They are speaking to me again. Telling me I am worthless and here you are again in the same spot. Thinking these awful thoughts when you know God is God.  (Click for more)

His Eyes Are on Us
The eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. (Click for more)

Blessings
I’ve lived 50 years and a majority of the time felt alive and useful. This past year has been different. I became an empty nester in 1994 at the ripe old age 40. (Click for more)

My Daily Prayer
Lord, help me through the days. Let them be full of you at work. If you want me to be your hands…take my hands Lord. (Click for more)

What a Day
Whatever the day brings, God is there! Thanks be to Jesus He’s in the ‘taken care’ of us business when it comes to living as he asked. Loving and doing good.  (observe the past tense of ‘taken care’) HE was victorious at the cross! I can live according to that truth no matter what the day brings. (Click for more.)

Proud Daddy
Last Sunday I was sitting next to my Music Minister and his son Ben. My Music Minister tapped my shoulder and signaled for me to look down at what his son had written. He had written the name “Jesus”. It was written with the J backwards but his daddy and I both knew that name. (Click for more.)

Joy in Obedience
This is much the same way our days move along in our walk with God. He is forever faithful and present.  I look and listen to his leading-his calling me.  He sometimes calls me places that cost me time or money or fun! (Click for more.)

Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow
This phrase from the doxology has been running through my head over and over in the past few months. So as I usually do, I asked God, “Why”? (Click for more.)

Good Morning, Lord
Driving to work the other morning I saw the sunrise.  The next day it was rainy and dark.  Two days later it was sunny again.  Today it is muggy and sometimes ‘a sprinklin’.  This is my life. Sometimes dark, sometimes cloudy but it’s always a day. (Click for more.)

Joy at the End of the Ages
Some of His disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God.  Jesus said, “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another". (Click for more.)

Joy in Believing
I want to share with you about the God I believe in. The one true God. The God of creation.  My God created the world in seven days.  (I just went through a move, I’ve been in my home 7 days, and I still haven’t unpacked everything.)  My God created the world with His voice,” Let the…”   (I can’t even get my dog to mind me.) (Click for more.)

Joy in Prayer
There are two beautiful people in my life that are very ill.  One is my Aunt Mary.  The other day my cousin asked, “ Can’t you just pray and she’ll get up?”  I believe with all my heart and soul the answer is “YES”. (Click for more.)

Joy in Friendship
Ouch.  I hurt; I cried.  My tummy ached from the pain of rejection; someone I loved had left me.  We used to laugh together and share our most private thoughts.  There was no one else I could trust like I had trusted this person. (Click for more.)

Choosing Joy
My life has not been “normal”, whatever that means.  While children ran in small groups, I always seemed to end up alone; you know, the last one picked for a team.  I played outside by myself on the “monkey bars” while others played team games. (Click for more.)

Shout for Joy
I’m an avid fan of sports. I’ll attend and yell my lungs out for almost any team, especially those that show a passion for the sport.  And can I yell! We have season tickets to the Baylor University football games. (Click for more.)

Exceeding Great Joy
In the book of Matthew, in the Holy Bible, it says in Chapter 2, verse 10, that when the Magi (the Wise Men) saw the star they "rejoiced with exceeding great joy".  Joy that they had found the Christ child.  They had been waiting for Him.  (Click for more.)

Endless Joy
The other morning I was driving to work and heard the news that the Foreign Aid workers were released. Two of which were girls that were from Waco, Texas and had graduated from Baylor University. They had been arrested in Afghanistan by the Taliban for preaching Christianity.  (Click for more.)

I Was Sinking
If you’ve been to the seashore or beach, then you know that if you plopped down and began to count just a tiny square inch of sand grains it would take hours and hours. That’s the time He spends thinking lovely thoughts of you! He loves you so much. Come walk with me as He ministers to both you and me. (Click for more.)

Love Lifted Me
I was not only sinking, I had sunk.  I had wandered out way over my head. My choices had left me floundering in waves that were crashing all around me.  I was scared; I was angry; I was lonely and I needed help. I needed a lifeguard.   (Click for more.)

He Sustains Me
Frankly, I wondered,  how could my Lord possibly restore this scarred and battered creature who had found solace in her misery.  Of course He gave me this verse.“Restore to me the Joy of Your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.” Psalms 51:12.  (Click for more.)

Now He Had Lifted Me
Now He had lifted me but to what?To look into the face of all the people from whom I had been hiding. Reflections of approval, anger, happiness, disapproval, and judgment. All man’s approval. Well that scared and still scares me.  I began to work my journey of "Joy" to the sum of pleasing others.  If I could claim happiness, then I would be happy and those around me would be happy. Joy would become my theme word. (Click for more.)