Living It

 The mouth of the righteous is a well of life… (Proverbs 10:11) Spoken words of love, faith, gratitude, and encouragement cause the garden of our lives to flourish. Leaving them unspoken deadens it with drought. What would happen if every day, on purpose, we drew from our well and drenched our whole world with life-giving words? How would the landscape [...]

When trouble threatens, the best thing to do is head for higher ground. That’s a solid, scriptural truth. But I didn’t learn it first from the Bible. I figured it out at my grandmother’s house when I was a little girl trying to escape my great uncle Willard’s hugs. Dear old Uncle Willard hugged like [...]

God is into surprises. Really into them. He thinks they’re fun. He wants me to think they’re fun too, but to be honest, I’m not always on the same page with Him about it. Sometimes I get cranky when I ask Him what’s going to happen about this or that and He says, It’s a [...]

Pigs aren’t aviators and everybody knows it. So if you ask for the impossible, somebody just might answer you by saying, Yeah, that will happen when pigs fly.  Not me, though. I don’t use that phrase anymore because pigs fly at my house almost every day.  No kidding. Each evening about 8:00 a tiny, air-born [...]

God doesn’t answer scared prayers. I heard somebody say that one time. Quoting a kid from the backwaters of Missouri, they mimicked his accent and it came out this way. God don’t answer skeert prayers. There’s some truth in that for sure. Prayers of faith are what move mountains. Prayers of faith are what please [...]

Watching the Winter Olympics reminds me afresh that I am not an athlete. I will never swoosh and carve my way down slopes of sugary snow to a proud place on the podium. I will never have an athletic shoe named after me. No cereal box will ever sport my smiling face. Still, I trot [...]

My 2 year-old granddaughter, McKenzie, got a revelation the other night. She discovered what it meant to be upside down. The light dawned on her as she nestled in the arms of her mother listening to wisdom from the Dr. Seuss book, Hop on Pop. Staring down at the pages, tiny brow furrowed, pondering the [...]

God can get us to our destiny. I heard news today that proves it. A friend phoned to tell me that her husband, a missionary with an unquenchable craving for evangelism, is stepping at last into the place of his dreams. That place is not easy to find for any of us. But in his [...]

The other day while praying with some friends, I found myself on Old Testament Mount Moriah. I was surprised to be there. A split second before I’d been huddled in front of the fireplace staving off the shivers of the Colorado cold. The Rockies are a long way from the Middle East, but you know [...]

In a few days it will be my birthday. Number 56. To help me transition to my new number with minimal shock I am practicing in advance by chanting to myself, 56…56…56. That way on the actual day it won’t seem like any big deal. Six years ago I didn’t do that. Big mistake. I [...]