Most of us know that we are living far short of what we are meant-to-be. If our approach to this problem is to try harder, using self-restraint to ride out each trying situation, we are sentencing ourself to a temporary fix that has no long-term...
Before we leave Christmas to begin the New Year, a parting gift waits to be opened . . . the most important gift we will ever receive. Like the star crowning a Christmas tree, my last message was carefully set into place, capping 15 months of...
When someone is offended at God, no matter how lovable that person may be, a leaden door seals them off from what God wants to do and be for them. . . is there any power that can get through to them, to change their heart...
In a dark hour, nothing is more precious than God making His presence real to us -- verifying that He is with us. Psalm 91 describes the secret place of The Most High -- where no plague, where no arrow can reach. The Psalmist describes how...
I remember the telephone call like it was yesterday . . . my Mom’s panic . . . thinking she was pregnant, having every symptom, terrified of having a baby at the age of 48. The risks and responsibility of giving birth at her stage...
Is it possible in our relationship with God to know -- not just how He is leading us -- but how He is warning us when we are at cross-purpose with Him? Last week, I shared how my husband and I were led to sell our...
On a long prayerful walk down the beach under a foreboding sky, the Lord impressed me that we were to sell our Florida home. My heart constricted. Bill and I adored our retreat there, but I "saw" a picture of the sales contract in my...
Those of us who have come out of Wicca, the occult and New Age spirituality carry a burden that most do not have to bear. Our burden is that we know how "real" our experiences were, how "natural" it felt as we thought we were hearing...
Few things bring humbler wonder, than to realize that God is piecing together a message for me . . . It is inconceivable that the God who created quasars and constellations should bend so low as to orchestrate circumstances to speak to us, but the evidence over...
Submission to God creates an atmosphere in which it is easy to hear and know God. When I find that I have lost the thread of His leading, the way back is always to locate that aspect of authority, which He has placed over me,...