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A day or two ago I wrote of the senseless suicide of one of the teens in my son’s youth group. I have found myself wanting to wallow in the grief and despair this has brought. I have been amazed at the amount of pain I’ve felt, when I did not even know the girl or her family. And I had to run to my Savior to help me not to give in to the pull of old behaviors. It is been almost 16 months since I last had a drink – and I found myself craving more than I had in a long, long time. Praise God! He is ...

This past Saturday morning I received a phone call from my son, Mark. He is the pastor of a small church in a small seaside community about 9 miles south of where we live. The night before, Friday night, his church and ours had a combined youth “lock in” held at our church. There were about 25 kids total who attended, plus Mark and our 3 youth pastors.

Mark was so distraught when he called that I literally could not understand him. He was sobbing – and saying something about one ...

Again, sorry to be away so long. One day I’ll be able to do what I love most – write, write, write! But for now, I remain obedient to where God has me, and that means my life is incredible busy, and I only get to indulge in my favorite activity now and then.

Today, April 20, 2012 marks 15 months that I have been sober. I didn’t even realize I was at another milestone, until I noticed the date. And the reason I noticed the date, is that April 20th is my heart friend’s birthday. I was ...

Song of Songs 2:12
Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves is heard in our land.

First, I apologize for being away so long. Life has a way of needing to be lived and sometimes I find myself doing what NEEFDS to be done, rather than what I WANT to do. And for any new readers of my blog, a quick review of my life will help the rest of this post make more sense. I am almost 58 years old, I have been a pastor’s wife for over ...

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I suspect most of us are very familiar with the passages in Genesis that talks about God creating us in his image. Genesis 1:27 tells us:

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

I have been thinking about this for a while now, ever since I heard a snippet of conversation on the radio about being created in God’s image. The person was admonishing his listeners to be better, more righteous, yes, ...