There is something about the way we are created that most of us dislike change. Oh, we may love adventure, but we like it on our terms. We get a little uncomfortable and off balance when life swirls around us, seemingly out of control. We like things tidy. Loose ends tied up. The occasional surprise [...]

Life seems to be racing forward despite it being the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer in Kansas. We’ve had unprecedented rain causing a prolonged harvest and muggy temperatures clinging doggedly to the 100 degree mark for weeks. The only thing that sounds enticing is laying in an airconditioned room under a ceiling fan sipping [...]

Seventeen years ago yesterday I began a new life.

When I was young and impetuous, I drove away from the frozen wasteland of Western Kansas watching it fade in my rear view mirror driving hard toward the glittering Land of Oz. Or at least a place warmer than the -15 windchill of a Kansas winter.

For the most [...]

God has a great sense of humor. I often feel His smile and sometimes I am sure I hear the echo of heavenly laughter as He looks down on me from the throne room of heaven. He says that I am fearfully and wonderfully made, but He also made the platypus so what does that [...]

Just like sin, something that appears small on the surface has deep roots

Don’t you love when the Spirit begins speaking something to you in a way that changes your life?

Actually sometimes I don’t love it because instead of saying, “You go, Girl! You’ve arrived at spiritual perfection!” the Spirit is whispering, “Be transformed into [...]

Sorry I have once again been missing in Blogsville. No excuses except the busyness of life. Thanks to so many of you who contacted me worried that I was down after I posted so honestly about my recent struggles. I am happy to say, weeping lasts for a night but there is joy in the [...]

There is a great Brandon Heath song that pleads for God to give him His eyes to see the world around him. And that includes seeing where God is at work–Even if that work is in our own lives, not just the world around us.

It should be the cry of every Christ-followers heart, but too many times my [...]

Mary DeMuth defines a thin place  as a time when the division between this world and the eternal fades. Have you experienced one?

I experienced a Thin Place on a  mission trip providing anesthesia to those in need.

Our team was summoned to the bedside of a young mother in labor who had been seizing for 3 hours.  With medications from my bag, her seizures stopped. We rushed her to [...]

Dear Ones,
As you know the country of Haiti was devastated by a 7.0 earthquake this week.

And I’m sure you have heard the rhetoric by some Christian commentators about why.

But I am here to say, the why does not matter at this point. Our response with the love of Christ does.

Say you chop your arm [...]