The 2020 Pandemic Exposed My Weaknesses, Defenses, Strengths, and Potential

Not unlike most of the world, 2020 threw me into a tailspin and exposed a shadow side I was unaware of. My last post was a tribute to turning 50, where the future was my to possess. Little did I know four weeks later, everyone's world would be turned upside down. And I would see just how emotionally unhealthy I really was.
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A Letter to My 8-Year-Old Self

You'll spend a lot of your life feeling like you don't fit in. Most of the time, you'll believe it's because you're not enough, and then you'll swing to you're just too much. Somewhere along the way, you'll lose yourself, but you'll discover her again. You will actually fall in love with her, and fitting in won't seem to be that big of a deal. But it will suck that the revelation comes so much later in life.

Wondering How To Experience A Limitless God...

I was told a story about a girl who grew up in Asia as a Buddhist. She knew nothing of Jesus Christ or the Bible. The story was told that she got ahold of a Bible, read it from cover to cover, believed the words written, and began to live out…

How Can We Be Certain It's God's Voice?

Sleepovers as a preteen were some of the best time ever spent on a weekend. We played Truth or Dare, Hide and Seek outside at midnight, and stayed up all hours of the night talking about the love of our lives, and who we were going to marry!…

Saying NO So I Can say YES!

Every year a season comes in my life where I have a lull. My schedule thins out and things quiet down. During that time, however, I have a tendency to commit to needs and events that come my way simply because I don't have a good excuse to say…

Keeping All The Plates Spinning

Have you ever seen those jugglers who are spinning plates on the end of a stick. The object is to keep the plates spinning so they don't fall. Each and every time they add another plate, the audience cringes because they know the inevitable…

Staying the Course

Starting a new course with God inevitably brings resistance. Determining where the resistance is coming from, and it's purpose, determines whether you change or stay the course. ...putting out to sea from there, we encountered strong headwinds…

Six Weapons For Spiritual Strongholds

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12 I recently had to make…

Ministry: Standards VS Legalism

Standards, they are everywhere. In society, at work, in personal relationships, and in ministry. But in ministry standards can be easily misconstrued as legalism. It is that fear of legalism and religiousness which has had me wrestling over…

New Adventures in 2012

My 2012 is already starting out with a new adventure! Today I am headed to the Brazilian Consulate in San Francisco for a visa! Yes, that's right, I'm goin' to Brazil!!! I've traveled all over Europe, but this is definitely something new! Everything…