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Loud cars?Designer clothes?Immaculate home?Well behaved children?Baseball jerseys?15,000 followers? Where do you find your identity?  What is your scale?  How do you know when enough is enough? Let’s use Today to give thanks and praise to God for His unconditional love!  His undeserved grace and mercy!  His enduring power!  His eternal promise! THAT is the identityContinue reading “Your Identity”

Are you a sunrise or a sunset kind of person?  The colors, the beauty and the majesty of the sun setting over water get me every time!  God is such an amazing artist! The same God who created the big ball of 27 million degree fire we call the Sun designed it to display glorious splendor everyContinue reading “Shine Like the Sun!”

Are you Scout ready?Or a Procrastinator? Good thing the disciples were Scout ready!  After Jesus’ resurrection He met the disciples while they were on their boat after a night of poor fishing.  “Let down your nets again,” He told them.  God filled their nets to overflowing!  They could barely haul in the bounty! Are YOUR netsContinue reading “Mend Your Nets”

What season is it?Easter?Spring?Baseball?Softball?Almost graduation!? Maybe you skipped celebrating National Caramel Day yesterday in the name of remembering National Twinkie Day today!  I will give you a heads up – Saturday is National Siblings Day!  Get your FB photos ready! 🙂 Isn’t it a relief to know that God doesn’t wait for a certain dayContinue reading “‘Tis the Season”

Growing up we spent a lot of time playing in our finished basement.  When Mom called us to come up for dinner we would run up the stairs, eager to NOT be the last one downstairs.  Nobody wanted to be the rotten egg.  Orrrrrr, in the case of my brother, he needed to be theContinue reading “Not the Dark”

Can you accept differences?Are you willing to stretch your beliefs and traditions in order to consider someone else’s point of view or opinion?And still like the person? I recently heard rumors that there is a new trend in how to make your bed.  How to make your bed?!How can there be a “new” way!?!I didn’t believeContinue reading “Acceptance”

Are you feeling hopeful these days?The hope of warmer weather?The hope of spring break?The hope of “normal”?Maybe you even hope for a good parking place!  🙂 I love the instant gratification of things we hope for – things with a lower case ‘h’.  It reminds me of sticker charts used to motivate children to brush teeth/clean rooms/walkContinue reading “Sticker Charts”

A baby doesn’t look like a full grown adult.A duckling doesn’t look like a full grown duck.A puppy doesn’t look like a full grown dog.But elephants?!? I love baby elephants!Even as a baby they look just like an adult!  They are just proportionately smaller! Why do we expect immature people to look/behave/sound/react like mature people?  EmotionsContinue reading “Baby Elephants!”

What does it take to be a good listener:– eye contact?- focus?- silence?- a counseling degree?Probably, yes, most likely not, and no. I learned how to be a good listener from my nephew.  I’m not mentioning any names, but it was my oldest nephew.  The one who introduced the large group of aunts and unclesContinue reading “Are You a Good Listener?”

What brought you joy today? A good night’s sleep? A new baby? (these first 2 don’t feasibly go together…)A healthy check up?A low balance bill?No line at Chick-Fil-A? Did you stop and give thanks to God for the gift of joy He gave to you?Often we are quick to ask God – and each other –Continue reading “Joy!”