What is EASTER to me? Is it chocolate bunnies and jelly beans? It used to be. To see the JOY on my children's faces, as they followed the plastic EASTER egg trail to their baskets that were filled with so much sugar that the EASTER bunny brought. I would do anything to see the JOY on my children's faces, because that is what LOVE does. As I look back at the time when my heart finally embraced the LIFE CHANGING SIGNIFICANCE of EASTER . I still had the bunny trail, y

The WAITING room is filled. You arrive early & so does everyone else. You start the WAIT. Tick. Tick. Tick. You are still WAITING as there is nothing else left for you to do as time is not in your control as you are STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT. WAIT~ "to stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or until something else happens." (Google) BUT what if GOD'S plan is the WAIT because you have no choice but to WAIT WITH GOD ? Today we remember the BIGGEST WAIT

A day WITHOUT JESUS is a day WITHOUT~ WITHOUT Peace. WITHOUT Hope. WITHOUT Joy. And WITH Total separation from GOD~ complete Darkness. The same darkness that filled the sky on the day that is called GOOD FRIDAY. The day when JESUS became separated from GOD on the Cross. The brutal Cross where HE hung~ "From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land" (Matthew 27:25) Darkness filled the heart of HIS mother & HIS disciples. A day WITHOUT JESUS i s a

"FIX YOUR EYES ON JESUS" (Hebrews 12:2) is what we are asked to do. BUT what if you are too afraid to fix your eyes on HIM because doubt overcomes your soul as you question~ "JESUS, Are you REALLY who YOU say YOU are?" I looked into JESUS' eyes in the midst of an overwhelming darkness that I couldn’t shake. A darkness that was so dark, that I had never felt before. It was after a time I was so depleted and in such despair that I was actually afraid to FIX my eyes on

GOD does not LOVE you. GOD is not WITH you. GOD can't be TRUSTED APRIL FOOLS! What a bad APRIL FOOLS joke. But don't we live like that, when we are believing the lies instead of HIS TRUTH because what we SEE & FEEL & EXPERIENCE just doesn't match up with what GOD SAYS? Do you take GOD for HIS WORD, ALL of HIS WORDS, or are you selective to what you want to hear and receive and believe? What do you question GOD about? So what if it was all a trick? What if GOD didn't

JESUS KNEW that in two days HE would be having HIS LAST SUPPER with HIS disciples~ HIS followers HIS friends. The time was approaching for the REASON why JESUS was BORN, to make the walk from THE CRADLE TO THE CROSS. Can you imagine what JESUS was FEELING, and yes JESUS FELT. JESUS was MAN. Think about your DAY BEOFRE. Oh the DAY BEFORE the something that you know that you will have to FACE , yet you don't want to FACE but you know you have to FACE. Is it a person who

I have PASSION that sometimes can be a wee bit too PASSIONATE, as when I am on my soapbox the Italian gets the best of me, and you better watch out because my PASSION can be a wee bit too PASSIONATE when I am standing up for TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH. PASSION~ Zeal. Fervor. Suffering. Yes, SUFFERING is the meaning of the word PASSION that defines this week JESUS was riding into as HE entered on a donkey. PASSION~ SUFFERING with GRACE & TRUTH . Oh THE PASSION of

Oh how they greeted HIM as they waved PALM branches as HE, THE KING OF THE JEWS rode into town on a donkey. Yup~ A KING riding on a donkey. But this was the same KING who was born in a smelly stable. Why would anyone BELIEVE that this was a KING when HE never looked like royalty. Would I have believed IN HIM ? Would you? I probably wouldn't have because I would have EXPECTED to see a man sitting on a throne with a caravan of servants while HE was performing miracles to pro

You take out your WEAPON that has the power to slay dragons. You wonder if it still has the SAME power, because the SAME battle is brewing around you and it appears nothing is changing, and you have exhausted all of your other OPTIONS . So you GO FORTH and strike it head on using the best WEAPON ~ PRAYER . You talk to GOD. You don't paraphrase or edit out words that HE may not like, as HE knows your heart anyway.. You can't hide what you are feeling or what you are bein

My little girl's heart looks at life so simply, as it is so very sensitive, that I forget that I am a 65 year old woman. My dad was like that. His favorite song was "A WONDERFUL WORLD". This song looks at the world so simply, for where the colors of the trees and the flowers and the sky lassos your heart in a way that you have to thank GOD for what A WONDERFUL WORLD . And then when the sky gets cloudy and grey you may forget the colors that once where, but are they really