I marvel as he continues to draw me even still, and it causes the flickers of hope to ignite within me that maybe,
Win their heart.
When I compare the woman I am today with the woman I was when I was young, I grieve. Young me was downright mean at times. I'm sorry for those days. Life has a way of teaching us what matters. Who matters. You sit on the couch, involved in a heated argument, and your mouth …
I am no bird. No net ensnares me.
This may be one of my favorite quotes in the world. And it's so hard to choose just one. Being in a very authoritarian marriage, where our church preached something called "Spiritual Authority", a concept backed up by many biblical scriptures, A woman was to submit to her husband whenever there was an impasse in …
The Lesson
I fell for someone once. Hard, fast, tumbletumbletumble Head over heels The swoon you read about in books, I fell for him. He was a writer. That was half of it right there. I had read something he had written and was moved powerfully. So I wrote him a small letter, And he wrote back. …
Build Your Life
The things that matter take time. I love instant happy. Who doesn't love instant happy? But lives take time to build. They aren't instantly successful. Friendships take time to build. The real ones. And merging lives? That is like getting up every day and going to work. You must pour into that project on a …
Leadership
There were times, I am sure, when Fletcher Christian regretted his decision. Captain Bligh must have made things so miserable, that Christian felt he had no other recourse. He is remembered and quoted as saying, "I am in hell. I am in hell."Â on that mutinous night. The diverse outcomes were ruinous for many. It …
~ When you are in the Wilderness ~
 We can find beauty in the most barren of surroundings. Today during a blessed conversation with a person whom I consider to be a true friend, I remembered Jacob from the Bible, and how the Lord visited him in the wilderness even though he had just deceived his father and "stolen" his brother's birthright. He bargained for …