Embrace Faith: God’s Word

Part One I sit at my desk in our new Georgia home, my eyes continually drawn to the window where I watch a new-to-me-world unfold below. A slow, steady rain continues to fill the back portion of our wooded yard as the runoff of our street flows from every direction, heading toward the retention pondContinueContinue reading “Embrace Faith: God’s Word”

Embrace the New Year

We can’t see the future. We cannot know what 2025 will hold – even if we have plans and hopes and dreams for it. We can’t anticipate the twists and turns coming our way, but neither should we fear them. In fact, I suspect that for all we think and hold and feel as weContinueContinue reading “Embrace the New Year”

Hidden Messages: Word

When I read Kate Quinn’s novel, The Rose Code, last year, I found myself on a journey to a hidden place called Bletchley Park, where during WWII, men and women worked night and day creating ciphers and decoding the encrypted messages of the Third Reich. I was enthralled with their processes, with their sheer stick-to-itiveness,ContinueContinue reading “Hidden Messages: Word”

Cultivate: Planting for Hope

How many times have you heard the adage, “You reap what you sow?” How many times have you seen it fulfilled? All the time – that’s why it’s proverbial. In my own life, if I sow much sugar into my body, I reap much pain and discomfort. If I sow a steady diet of socialContinueContinue reading “Cultivate: Planting for Hope”