I love the beginning of a new year. I love the idea of a fresh start and a blank calendar. While I am not a resolutions girl, I am a goals girl. I enjoy setting and tracking my goals over the year. One of my favorite tools is the Powersheets goal planner. With Powersheets, I…
It’s Word of the Year time again. I’m not sure who started the Word of the Year trend, but I do remember the way it seemed to spark and then catch fire, lighting people up with inspiration and focus at the turn of the year, when we seem to need those things most. The transition…
But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know…
What is the best gift you’ve ever received? Personally, I am surrounded by thoughtful and creative gift-givers. Receiving gifts is one of my love languages and one that I used to try to repress. I wrongly associated my delight in receiving gifts as self-focused instead of acknowledging that God had wired me to love getting…
These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. (John 20:31 NIV) We sing songs about the name of Jesus. We end our prayers in his name. The Bible says we may have life in his name….
Today I woke in pain again, after a fitful night of little sleep. This season of pain has been long. Beginning in sixth grade with a knee injury and then throughout my life, including at all major life events, I have dealt with this same nagging pain of severe osteoarthritis. Spending my first day of…