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Author: Valerie

Slipping away from the tumult of her visiting grandchildren, she walked down the darkened hallway to her silent studio—catching her breath, startled to find someone waiting there. In a chair too big, in the middle of the room, her barely seven-year-old granddaughter sat waiting. “Darling, what...

What is it that allows some people to experience an amazing flow of fortuitous events demonstrating their connection to God? Are they “special”? Is it “luck”? Do they have a “gift” we do not? The answer is—none of the above.  What they have is a right...

My friend and collaborator, David Cato, died early Friday morning, January 20th, 2012, at 2:00 AM of kidney failure. As an artist his work shines throughout this website; as a man the lingering beauty of who he was shines on in my heart. Humble, professional, sweet,...

No provision is more essential to experiencing God than faith. When faith is perfected in us, it coalesces into something extraordinary—the supernatural capacity to receive God’s supernatural power into our circumstances. The power to hear God, to see Him, to understand what He is saying does...

No matter how we experience the divine dialogue, we are experiencing The Holy Spirit. The two experiences are indivisibly the same. When the Spirit of God moves on you, in you or around you, to whatever end or by whatever means, you are being informed...

As many of you know, my friend and collaborator, David Cato, was rushed to the hospital and given slim chance of survival the week before Christmas. Unconscious and non-responsive, already compromised by a tough recent bout with his autoimmune disease, this man with a huge...

Lest my words get in the way, they will be few . . . this week I share two videos, two brief moments of imagery and music to help you find that most elusive of places in the rush and clamor of this season—that place...

. Somewhere along the way we lost sight of what it means to believe. The promise is big—whatsoever we believe we will receive—but taking a close look at our results in life, \\is it possible we don’t know what this kind of believing looks like? Some see...

If your goal is to understand what God is saying to you, know this—you already hear Him—you just don’t have the vision of God yet, with the corresponding soil of soul to be able to respond to what He is telling you. So His words...