• Learning to Love….Me?!

      UPDATE: Linking with Purposeful Faith today, January 13, 2015.   It’s Valentine’s Day. Love is in the air, right? Sometimes.   Sometimes it’s not always floating around so beautifully, and sometimes the “love-hate” relationship can be directed, with precision, at ourselves. We simply don’t know how to love ourselves (as one Jesus died for…

  • Diving Deeper

      “Yeah, he’s certified!” was the latest excitement at our house. Our oldest blessing had finished all the courses and water time. He was now SCUBA certified, all the more reason to enjoy Hawai’i. It was a good day.   He shared stories of all the amazing under-water creatures he encountered, the vast, turquoise-blue scene…

  • It’s Review Time

    Hi All, Fellow home schooling parent, Mark Koopmans, has written a review of The Other Side of the Fence. It’s a first, praise the Lord! Take a peek here and enjoy the read. While you’re at it, peruse some of his other posts for smiles, grins, and a few giggles here and there. (He’s a…

  • Bearing With One Another

      It’s not always easy, bearing with one another as we learn, growing in the spirit, just like it’s not always easy being behind the cautious, slow-moving driver in training. I’ll admit, if there’s an opportunity to switch lanes and zip past the awkwardness, I’ll most likely take the first opportunity to pass the student…

  • Are You Certain?

    Are you certain? Are you saved? Are you certain? We had a phenomenal weekend at church. John Bevere came to speak, yet it was the Lord’s voice we “heard.” Don’t you love it when the anointing of the Lord is oh-so-evident in a Christian’s life and it overflows into the lives of others?  There’s nothing…

  • The Pause

    He had a need for direction, a desire to understand the precise will of His God. With humility as his friend, the young man set his mind and heart toward understanding through fasting and prayer. He sought his Lord. And then he waited, and waited, and waited some more before the evidence of an answer…

  • New Year

    It’ s the New year. A couple of months ago I believe the Lord spoke clearly to me about taking care of His temple, my body. There were a few physical issues that were rearing their head, they were getting in the way of ministry to my family and to others because I simply didn’t…