“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21 NIV I thought I would simply be changing the name of my blog to “Heart-Filled Moments.” But as I chewed on this idea for a long time, it became evident to me that the Lord wanted me to change something different–the direction of my heart. I wanted a new blog name. Something fancy. Something feminine. Something that would catch the reader’s eye and heart. The … Continue reading →
To be the kind of person who would have the determination, drive, ability, and persistence to walk into another person’s life and make a powerful and positive difference was the deepest desire of my heart. Even before Jesus had come knocking on the door of my heart, I thought I could do that if I just did not give up and continued to encourage and lead that person into a new and hope-filled life. To live the … Continue reading →
Winter’s Deep Freeze Has Left the Branches Bare My hope has been placed in so many things, in so many people. I depended on circumstances, or well-thought-out plans, maybe a job, but most especially a particular person in whatever season of my life on which to hang my hope. If whatever I was hoping for would come to pass, then I knew I would be at peace and filled with joy. But time and again, whatever I … Continue reading →
“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV God has done some amazing work behind the scenes in my life this week and in my family. To Him be all glory and power and praise forever more! … Continue reading →
We had looked forward to this time for months. With our son having left for boot camp only two weeks prior, we knew that a few-day visit from our friends would be the perfect pick-me-up for our droopy spirits. But as the time approached, I felt myself sinking into a deep pit. Son had not called or written–my heart breaking while other Moms reported glorious words from their offspring. Energy levels plummeted with the mood. I looked around the … Continue reading →
The text from youngest beeped at me, “(Lol) Sean Miller is on my flight.” The thoughts start whirring as I walk through the grocery story. The basketball coach of the University of Arizona is on the plane with youngest. The basketball coach for whom Jordan was one of several team managers a couple of years ago. It was the road we all thought youngest would travel. Keep working for the team, continue his major in Journalism, and blaze a … Continue reading →
Nervous, as I always am before an event that I am hosting, I checked off my last minute list of goodies to be packed in the car for the party. Star-shaped cookies wrapped in wristbands, two floral centerpieces, the cake, photos of our youngest, the Navy journal, and, of course, the camera. Everyone was in the car when I glanced back and saw youngest’s jeans–they had the fashionable hole on the knees. I started fraying like his jeans, and … Continue reading →
Bridal Veil Falls “Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;” Psalm 42:7a NIV At the foot of the waterfalls, the grandeur and power of God roar down the cliffs of Yosemite, and I am awed by His glorious creation. The water pounding against the rocks echoes my heartbeats reaching up in praise to the Almighty. I am captivated by His strength and calmed by the rhythm of the unending flow of water like the unending … Continue reading →
Flower of a prickly pear plant “Shout for joy to the Lord all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music;” Psalm 98:4 NIV As I look around me, the desert seems to be bursting forth in song to the Lord, God its creator. Prickly pear cactus shout in brilliant yellow, while giant saguaros trumpet forth in white bursts that carefully quiet within at night. Strawberry hedgehogs and scraggly chollas display splashes of God’s pallete in … Continue reading →
Dear Amy, When the latest blow of pain sliced through my heart like a knife, you stood beside me with your ever-present gift of comfort and tender sensitivity to my words and hurt. But your face registered a look I’d never seen before, and it sent a wave of tremors through my insides. You looked Stunned. Shocked. Incredulous. Twenty minutes later as you moved around the room, you said, “Wow. I’m just having a hard time comprehending this. Two … Continue reading →
