Today I was remembering a very special Christmas, the Christmas of 1980. The Christmas before had been difficult and brought about huge changes that resulted in us leaving Campus Crusade, joining World Wide Discipleship and moving to Georgia. The aftermath of leaving Crusade found me a struggling mess, hungering for peace, rest, healing and acceptance. I had […]
Musings with Jesus On Credibility
A while back I wanted to explain something to someone important to me and they refused to listen. I honored their refusal, though it hurt me. Later I realized that the message I “heard” was, “I don’t want you to explain, because you don’t have any credibility with me.” While writing in my journal the […]
Faith: When the Invisible Becomes Visible-Part Two
In Part One, we looked at how uncertain life can be when we have feelings that go all over the place and we don’t have a solid foundation to live by. We looked at how faith is the foundation we need and what God has to say about faith. Hebrews 11:1 tells us that, though […]
Faith: When the Invisible Becomes Visible – Part One
In our world, we catch our breaths at a glimpse of something beautiful one second and the next moment we find our hearts racing with anticipation and impending horror as the unthinkable unfolds before our eyes. With one breath, we provide hope and encouragement in someone’s struggle to make a good choice, and with our […]
Joyful Musings on Thoughts We Have–Satan’s tricks
Often when I am counseling someone I encounter the issue of hearing God’s voice. I find that many are not certain that they are hearing God and are afraid to trust what goes through their mind–even when it sounds wonderful. Sometimes I find people who are trusting thoughts that they should not trust—lies from their […]
Joyful Musings on Luke 11–What is the "Key of Knowledge?"
As I was reading in Luke 11 today, a phrase in verse 52 jumped out at me. Jesus tells the Pharisees, “. . . you have taken away the key of knowledge.” I looked up the Greek for the word “key” and the word “knowledge.” I found that they mean “key” (literally or figuratively) and […]