Lord the Light of Your Love is Shining

Today is my baby’s birthday.  It is so hard for me to believe, not only that she is already seven, but also that she is the last one. Some days I am so tired that I cannot begin to comprehend having anything more to do.  When I consider, though, the overwhelming joy that the love…

Forty-eight minutes twelve seconds.  That is how much time I spent with my eldest son this week.  48 min 12 sec.  That doesn’t sound like very much time does it?  You know what…it’s not. Forty-eight minutes and twelve seconds was the length of our phone call on Saturday afternoon.  I was supposed to go away…

The first part of this devotion focused on the single mindedness of the raccoons, in their pursuit of – what seemed to be – an easy reward. I’d like to take a different perspective today, and consider the single mindedness of the dog in her relentless commitment to chasing the invaders away. Mia (the dog)…

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in the Land of Plenty.  Year after year, she always had her needs met and exceeded and her toy box was always full.  The little girl had every ‘thing’ she ever needed and then some.  The little girl and her parents did not get…

Do you ever feel like you’re on a treadmill? or that you just keep going around and around making the same mistakes over and over again? Do you ever start out with the best of intentions and then find yourself making the same poor choices you made the last time you were in a similar…

Browsing through my ‘drafts’ folder, I came across this post that I had begun a year ago today.  Although God has continued to work on my attitude, not that much else has changed. It was Friday morning.  My weekend was packed.  Swimming lessons in an hour, my daughter was babysitting for a friend while I…