Victoria Grace isn’t who she’s claimed to be. But she's taking a stand and learning to speak boldly for Christ. Find out more in this post... …
We all have dreams. We all have these expectations of where we’re headed, what things will be like when we get there, and how God might use us along that journey. I know lots of times those dreams and expectations don’t wind up looking…
I remember the first time someone asked me if I believed in the once saved, always saved doctrine. It was completely foreign to me. I had grown up hearing about things like backsliding and falling away. But I didn’t just hear about it once.…
One of my favorite things about summer is sharing my quiet time with my daughter. It started a couple of years back. I would get up and see my husband off for work, then take my Bible and coffee out to the picnic table…
I love flowers! Now that summer is here; I love seeing all the flowers in the landscaping of my next door neighbor’s yard. After a long and cold spring, the flowers have finally all returned from their long winter’s nap. They even seem to…
For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity. -Proverbs 24:16 (NIV) My life feels like a three-ring circus. This thought crossed my mind today, and not for the first time. And by a…
Have you ever felt like a failure as a Christian woman? Like, you looked at other Christian women doing all the things, and then looked in the mirror and found yourself wanting? Candid Confession: I have.…
I’ve had those days. I’m sure you have too. Those days when one annoying thing happens, then something else goes wrong, followed by another… and in a short amount of time, you find yourself grumbling about everything, and maybe even taking your frustration out…
One of my favorite things to do is read my Bible aloud. Not like to anyone. Just to myself. I love hearing the Word of God. Putting inflection into it. There’s just something about speaking it aloud that makes it come alive for me.…
As long as I can remember I have had a fear of rejection and abandonment. I remember being very young and crying at the song “Puff the Magic Dragon.” Little Jackie Paper moved on from his friend Puff. Basically, as the song goes, Jackie…
Do you have trouble falling asleep at night? Would you be surprised to learn that this is a common struggle among women? In 2002 the National Sleep Foundation did a survey that found 63% of women suffered from insomnia. That’s a lot of tired…
I am not enough. That is the truth that has been sinking in lately. I sat in the office with only half the amount of paperwork that I was supposed to have with me. My printer had run out of ink that morning (I…
Are you okay? How are you doing today? How’s it going? These are questions we get asked on a regular basis. Or at least we do in my neck of the woods. And 90% of the time, they are asked because people really want…
“Should I move back home to Hawaii or should I stay in San Francisco?” this question kept me up at night and then when I did fall asleep it leaked in and crowded my dreams. I was in my first semester of college…
Can I be honest and tell you that I haven’t always loved the story of Esther in the Bible? It’s one of the stories that I didn’t always understand from the first time I read it. Let me be frank, I’m a very analytical…
Let’s be honest, we all struggle with something. And sometimes, we’d like to know just what the Bible says about it. You know, find out if our struggle is even worth struggling with in the first place. Or maybe we talk ourselves into something…