When my hubby speaks you listen, not only because he speaks so softly but because his words are packed with such meaning. He will listen to my one million words, and then respond with three words that sum up what I was trying to say. During a recent conversation, he summed up my words into 7 words~ "GIVE ME A CHANCE TO LOVE YOU!" Words that provide an open the door to relationships, that have been closed. Words that you don't have to say, but you do, for ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDE

WHAT are you thinking about in this SECOND? WHAT is overtaking your MIND? It could be what I just asked you or it could be _________, if you are a multitasker thinker like me. So whatever you are THINKING about or trying not to THINK about, will dictate how your day will start and how your day will end. But what if, just what if your mind and my mind could be in a state of PERFECT PEACE? A PEACE that I can't produce and you can't produce, because only JESUS can produce PERF

I want to tell you about a POTATO CHIP. Yes, a POTATO CHIP. Because sometimes the smallest, silliest things become the MOMENTS you never forget. There were three of us, together in an emergency room with our precious friend. There was PAIN. There was UNCERTAINTY. And yet, right therein the middle of an emergency room, there was a POTATO CHIP that changed everything. For that POTATO CHIP became part of one of the most ridiculous, silly, JOY-filled moments. We laughed. I mea

It was one of those SLEEPLESS nights, that kept me up all night, because I was trying to figure out why I couldn't SLEEP. Was it something I ate? Is it something I'm thinking about? Or... am I spending so much time trying to figure out WHY I couldn't SLEEP that I couldn't SLEEP? Hmm. So my brain was WIDE AWAKE, because of the WHYS! Oh the WHYS of life. WHY did this happen? WHY am "I" feeling this way? WHY can't "I" fix this? WHY? WHY? WHY? It's like my mind has a piece of cha

The sun is shining. Summer is still here, even though the school bells are ringing. The temperatures are getting a little cooler. The countdown to CHRISTMAS is beginning to happen, as the pumpkins are being birthed. The trees are getting ready to do what they do. when the season changes. One by one they will FALL, to officially welcome the season of FALL. CHANGE. It happens ALWAYS. Just ask the CLOCK. Tick. Tick. Tick. Just look at your birth certificate. Tick. Tick. Tick. C

He was playing with blocks. And then he said to me, "Jojo, let's build JESUS". I melted. The child heart of my 4 year old grandchild, meeting my child heart, with "LET'S BUILD JESUS". What more had to be said, for his DESIRE was to build JESUS. As I looked at his precious face and then to the blocks he was playing with, I questioned myself, "How DO I BUILD JESUS?" Well, GOD made it easy. For the blocks he was playing with where blocks to a Tic Tac Toe game, so each one was

GOD'S plans and purposes for your LIFE are BEYOND this world. BEYOND what you SEE. BEYOND your CIRCUMSTANCES. BEYOND your FEELINGS. So what is BEYOND? Well, ask Buzz Lightyear from the movie "Toy Story", as his mission was to LIVE BEYOND as he chanted his word's, "TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!" Now if INFINITY is ENDLESS, how can you LIVE BEYOND INFINITY? BY FAITH. For FAITH is LIVING BEYOND what you do SEE, what you do FEEL, and what you don't UNDERSTAND, by BELIEVING GOD wh

I remember when one morning I was thinking, maybe I am BORING. And why? Because I spend so much of my time with my nose in THE BIBLE. Hmm. But then again, that's the very place where GOD CHANGED MY LIFE. I still remember the moment I saw with my own eyes the word ANXIOUS in the Bible. I was blown away. Because if I had been given a middle name based on how I lived, it could have been ANXIETY. And there it was, in GOD'S WORD~ “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every sit

s ANYONE BEYOND FORGIVENESS? Let's see. Once upon a time there lived a man named DAVID. He was anointed to be KING. And a KING, he became. And an ADULTERER, he became. And a MURDERER, he became. And he is called A MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART. Hmm. Did GOD KNOW what DAVID did? Oh yes. And that is why GOD sent NATHAN to confront DAVID, but with GRACE and TRUTH. And what did DAVID do? He RECEIVED the GRACE OF FORGIVENESS through REPENTANCE, A GODLY SORROW~ "Generous in love—GOD

THIS TOO SHALL PASS! In our neighborhood where there was a house yesterday, now lies a piece of land with rubble. A piece of land with the remnants of what was once a home. A home where memories were made. A home, that at one time was so precious to the owners. I can just picture the faces of the first owners as they put the key in the door and then walked through the threshold to what was theirs. Now today it is just a bunch of broken down pieces of wood and soon it will be