You look to the left. Dead flowers. You look to the right, Dead flowers. You look straight ahead. Dead flowers. Where is THE JOY? How can JOY sprout up in the desert? Does JOY have to be SEEN to be experienced? Or is it that REAL JOY is a JOY that shows up in the darkest, deadest, and driest, spaces and places so that you experience REAL JOY that never leaves. Look to the left. "O GOD, YOU are my GOD; with deepest longing I will seek YOU..." Look the right. "My soul [my l

Those three words that are so easy to say, yet so hard to do~ LET IT GO. What is your IT that is so hard to LET GO, even though the IT has LET GO of you? Think about IT. IT comes in ALL shapes and sizes. An IT that is a CIRCUMSTANCE where you have no control. An IT that is relationship that you have no control. An IT, that you do have control over, because you are holding onto IT so tightly, because you can't see your life without IT? Oh the power of the IT, because IT ha

Early one morning, I walked the Italian grounds of where my hubby and I were staying in Italy. No one was around. I was surrounded by olive and lemon trees. I was also surrounded by a quietness, that I have never heard before. There I was. All alone. So this mind of mine started wandering and thinking~ "If no one knew I existed, does not mean I don't exist?" Pretty creepy thought, but think about it. "If no one knew you existed, does that mean you don't exist?" Hmm. Well,

GOD keeps reminding me how HE saved me from a life that had me crawling like a caterpillar, so that I could FLY. But was it easy to FLY when I first got my wings, when all I knew was to crawl? Oh no, not for me. I felt like a butterfly in a cocoon, flapping my wings as I looked at all the other butterflies flying and my wanting be one of them. But I was one of them. So I asked GOD, "What is blocking the doorway to my cocoon?". And what does GOD do when you ASK? HE ANSWERS. F

It is like a slow leak. You don't know it is happening, until it happens. One moment you are filled with CONFIDENCE in the LORD, so that nothing shakes you. And then it happens. Your CONFIDENCE begins to dwindle, because what you SEE and what you FEEL makes you LOSE HEART. You feel as if someone is nibbling at your heart making it LESS. It is still beating, but you feel as you are missing a beat. You lose your footing. TO LOSE HEART~ DEMORALIZED! What a descriptive word. DEMO

TODAY is TODAY, YESTERDAY was YESTERDAY. TOMORROW is TOMORROW. So what DAY are you LIVING IN? Does YESTERDAY bleed into your TODAY, with the could haves, should haves, and would haves? And if they do, then TODAY would be all about YESTERDAY! Digest that. What is stealing the JOY of TODAY, because you invited YESTERDAY and TOMORROW? Is it a BITTERNESS that is eating away at your heart? Is it a WAIT that you have been WAITING to happen, yet LIFE appears as if it is standing

Oh to "BE JOYFUL ALWAYS" (I Thessalonians 5:16) sounds IMPOSSIBLE, only if you BELIEVE that it is IMPOSSIBLE to BE JOYFUL ALWAYS. But what if today is the day TO BELIEVE GOD, and I mean to REALLY BELIEVE GOD, even if what you see and even if what you feel makes you question whether you WANT to BELIEVE that GOD is GOOD ALL THE TIME. Because the TRUTH that GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME, is the reason how you can BE JOYFUL ALWAYS, even if you what you see and feel is not so JOYFUL.

Good Morning JUNE. We welcome you into our LIFE, because we have no choice, as the calendar has turned the page. But oh we do have a CHOICE to make this a JOYFUL JUNE. Sounds so HAPPY HAPPY and IMPOSSIBLE, especially if nothing around you is shouting JOY. But what if JOY can be your WAKE UP call every morning, because JOY is your new REALITY? Sounds impossible because we are way too human and way too feely feely. Well, this feely feely Italian woman was convicted heavily

Day 30 of JOYFUL JUNE. So where will JOY be in JULY. The same place it is IN every month, IN every day, IN every hour, IN every...

YOU never STOP. YOU never GIVE UP. YOU are RELENTLESS. YOU are STEADFAST. Because YOU are GOD. YOU won't let me STAY the SAME,...