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(Words of encouragement) When you have come to an abrupt halt, a severing train crash of your hopes, your dreams, your future….. You don’t know which way to go, you can’t see a fork in the road, no left or… Continue reading

In our service to Him, are we really listening to people’s needs? or do we come to someone with our own agenda and preconceived ideas of what they need? It was an important part of our work in my current… Continue reading

Sometimes, I believe, He just wants me to know He is listening – that He indeed hears me. No lessons, no directions, no great spiritual revelation – just a simple, unpredictable, unexplainable manipulation of circumstances to say – “Daughter, I… Continue reading

I was thinking what a beautiful day this is and about how blessed I am until I felt the scratchiness of the willow branch as it passed across my cheek. The scent of it provoked an immediate reaction that took… Continue reading

A few weekends ago during a time with the Lord, I was weeping so hard and could not stop. It was a feeling from deep within the soul. I was overcome with a desire and longing to be in a… Continue reading

I love the smell of fresh sawdust, wood glue, and metal residue on my hands left from the steel nails after I’ve been building. My daddy was a carpenter, and a lot of summer days were spent all day on… Continue reading

The thing the team first noticed going into the community was the number of children playing in the streets. They floated around in little clusters like fluffy little seedlings off a cottonwood tree. Free flitting spirits with no place to… Continue reading

I sat perched high above the beach with an unobstructed view of the ocean. The beach access point was just to the right of my bench. I was enjoying the solitude and the constant crashing and swishing noise of the… Continue reading

It’s not always the knock on the door that has the most impact. At LS it was not, it was a chance meeting in the street of which none of the participants were aware of the outcome – well none… Continue reading

It was a last-minute trip to take my 88-year-old friend to the beauty shop. She had been invited to go to a birthday party the next day and was not happy about having bed head to wear but had not… Continue reading