We are almost there.  In a little over twenty-four hours we get to start a new year.  A new year.  In the past, I have anticipated the beginning of a new year with resolve to . . . * lose weight — become a new me in a smaller size with new habits that include [...]

Wow!  It has been a long time since I’ve written — not because there have been no salvation stories, but perhaps because there have been so many of them.  Salvation Stories beginning, unfolding, confusing, challenging, terrifying, encouraging, emerging, disentangling, releasing, unravelling, confounding, baffling, arousing, exacting, imposing, heartbreaking, and continuing  . . . . If I used [...]

OCTOBER 1, 2012 begins the testing period for the Mobile Phone Apps I’ve been working on to bring Therapy to the IPhone; to bring what is not seen (true reality – that require faith to see there’s more than meets the eye; an opportunity to look at incredibly private and personal issues like body image [...]

I haven’t written for several weeks, because I have been involved in a new project — creating phone apps!  As my son said, “Who would have thought you would be working in technology?!”  The truth is, it has been a lot of fun and a great outlet for renewed creative juices.  The mobile phone/tablet apps are [...]

This is a salvation story written by Mary — my generous, tender-hearted friend.  The story came to her after reading the New Testament letter from the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians.  What stories, verses, sounds, or experiences remind you of your Salvation Story?  I read recently, “When we are more afraid of the power of [...]

I haven’t written for a while because the trip to Asia took a lot out of me!  But the stories I have to tell! Before I left I prayed for God to put some words on my heart, and the first word that came quickly to mind was flexibility.  I already knew that long flights [...]

Tags: Asia Adventure, Broken Marriage, Busted Jeart, Flexibility

This is the edited version of the blog I sent out last night.  Apparently, the tears that were still in my eyes blinded me to all the typos or I simply forgot to use the miracle of spellcheck. I went to a movie with my parents tonight — that seems to be a new American [...]

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There’s a right time for birth and another for death, A right time to kill and another to heal, A right time to rip out and another mend, A right time to hold on and another to let go, A right time to make love and another to abstain, A right time to shut up [...]

When my children were younger (Graham age 6, and Kristin age 7), I was stressed out.  I was commuting to grad school, overwhelmed by academia, reading journals I didn’t understand, writing papers with formats that seemed tedious and unnecessary while still trying to drive carpool, do laundry, cook dinner, and help my kids with their homework.  By [...]

Tags: Salvation Stories; Dan Allender; Wounded Heart Conferen

“The disciples came up and asked, ‘Why do you tell stories?’ [Jesus] replied, ‘You’ve been given insight into God’s kingdom. . . . Whenever someone has a ready heart for this, the insights and understandings flow freely.  But if there is no readiness, any trace of receptivity soon disappears.  That’s why I tell stories: to create [...]

Tags: power of story, Stories of Salvation