Category Archives: Love

Don’t Settle for the Metal

I’ve always been an achiever and pretty much have reached all my goals with few surprises along the way. But, this finding a husband thing, is the one thing I haven’t been able to achieve. It keeps eluding me no matter how much I try. And that drives me nuts. I just don’t get it.

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Light of the World

God is teaching me some really rich things at the moment- so personally rich that I can’t explain what he teaching me with mere words. But, through my cleansing, much healing and new thinking is being born. It’s like a beautiful meteor shower. All these incredible things just keep whizzing by my brain – and it’s a beautiful light show. Continue reading

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Holy Week

This is my favorite week all year as God leads us from Palm Sunday into Good Friday and then through the joy of Easter. It’s an emotional week on all counts. If you feel like you’re on a roller coaster, my advice is just go with it. It’s supposed to happen. Continue reading

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Let Go and Hold On

I was going to write a post about how God has been showing me that it’s time to turn all control over to him. That I needed to take my white knuckles off the things I hold onto for dear life – my next job; my healthy; my family; comfort and love life. He’s been silently telling me to let things happen naturally, as He intends and not what I think is best for me. He’s got it all under control and his way is the peaceful route. Continue reading

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Paying Tribute to My Dad on His Birthday and Premiere Date of the “The Pacific”

I have always felt my Dad was a shell of a man. I always thought I didn’t have my full Dad with me – it was just a sense I had and you sure couldn’t tell that from meeting him. After the war, he still was a quiet man who loved to garden, but he held himself back from accepting love, joy and happiness. I think the war took that out of him, sadly way before I was ever born. Continue reading

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Healing Hands and A Father’s Embrace

The longer I looked at the “the patriarch,” the clearer it became to me that Rembrandt had done something quite different from letting God pose as the wise old head of the family. It all began with the hands. Continue reading

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How Do You Love? A Study of the Prodigal Son Through Rembrandt’s Eyes

ave you ever seen Rembrandt’s “Return of the Prodigal Son?” God just made me aware of it, thanks to a new bible study we are doing in Sunday School. It’s absolutely magnificent and speaks to your soul. I have never been moved like this before by observing a painting. Continue reading

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Valentine’s Day – The Importance of a Father’s Love

But, even though, we learn about our Prince through Disney classics – it is our fathers who embody them for us. They are the first men in our lives who love us – they set the bar for how we should choose our boyfriends and our PrinceCharmings. Dads are so very important to our well-being. In many ways, they are more valuable in this area than our mothers. Continue reading

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Unemployed Or Is It a God Appointed Sabbatical?

So if God have given me two decades of work – and now – is giving me a decade of sabbatical rest – can I trust him in that? I know it’s God will for me to be without study employment at the moment, but I never saw it as truly a gift for him of rest. For me to get my soil rich again – to give it a breather so it can gain nutrients that have been depleted over the years. He’s ordained this. He wants me to rest. Rest in him. Trust him. Continue reading

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Complain, Complain, Complain

So my take away this morning was that all of my complaints really are not against a person, place or thing – they are really against God and my lack of faith that he doesn’t know what is best for me. Continue reading

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