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Life can happen in an instant. My mother dying, for example.  She had just visited me for my birthday. We shopped and went to the beach....

You've heard it before. When the money is tight. When you aren't sure if your old car will survive until your next paycheck. GOD WILL...

How beautiful we are to God. He created us and loves us deeply. We are valued by him. In response to His deep love, we praise Him for all His goodness. 

When I was praying for help the other day, I launched into my regular litany of all the things that I felt were wrong with the world,...

School is out and it's time to catch up with some summertime reading! I have the perfect book for you - When God Happens. I had the...

How do we deal with financial fears? There are days when I look at the finances and I have to take a deep breath. As a family we have...

We all need motivation. Someone once said that you don’t just casually drift up to the top of a mountain. Meaning: If you want to get...

Our actions are like drops of water that cause ripples in a pond. Every drop produces a ripple. Every drop. And the ripples spread in...

Some days are meant to be seen through the eyes of a child. Today was one of them. It was a beautiful spring day in my prayer garden. ...

How do you find the strength to get through difficult times? When I look back at the struggles that I have faced in the past, the only answer has to be - God. My faith sustained me through my mother's illness and subsequent death. God's gentle presence carried me through the shock and grief of losing my daughter.

How can you hear God when the world is reeling out of control, and confusion is everywhere? Sometimes when life happens,  it is really...

When I was praying the other day, I launched into my, usual litany of all the things that I felt was wrong with the world, with politics, my finances, and pretty much everyone who had not done things my way. 

Have you received your gifts from God, yet? Did you check the mail? He always sends them. Every day. These gifts come from Heaven. Manna...

What does empty me of me mean? What does that look like? What does that feel like? And why would I want to? There are times in life when we get in our own way. That loud chatter in my mind tells me I am not doing enough, or moving fast enough. I am not pretty enough, thin enough. I am not enough. Others have figured it out... they know the secret that I have missed.

I love this picture of the Last Supper.  I took the photo the last day that St. David's Church occupied their address in North Hollywood....

I really wish I could control everything. I think the world would run so much more smoothly if everyone would just listen to what I have to say. Oddly, not everyone wants my advice. I know, shocking

How can we understand the ways of God? We struggle, we try to be "good". We pray and abide and obey and then nothing seems to happen. Our finances are still stuck. Our kids are still misbehaving. Our illness gets worse. God's ways are not our ways.

Peace.    We all need it. But how to get it? There are days when everything is rushed - when dog's water bowl tips over just as I am...

I am a new creation!  What an amazing thought for the day. Once we turn our lives over to Christ - we become new again.  He takes...