{Silence} Not all silence is golden. Any mom of young children knows that silence means trouble! Sometimes I crave silence with how loud my house can become! Late at night, when all is quiet, I finally take a breath. I inhale the silence. I exhale the weight of the world. My outward life is so noisy, but my inward life doesn’t have to be. I am constantly seeking to be silent with my relationship with God. I crave to be…
{Value} What do I value? I’d like to say I value people. Relationships. But does my life reflect this? Do I rush through life, forgetting birthdays and forgetting milestones? Am I too busy to call that friend from long ago and just talk. If I wait until the perfect time to connect, we will stay distant. I want to really live like I value the important things. The eternal things. God’s Word. People. Those are the only two things that…
“They that wait upon the Lord…..shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31 There is no thrill in walking; it is the test of all the stable qualities. – Oswald Chambers While we wait, we do not want to walk….we want to run. Run fast. Run ahead. We don’t want to wait on paperwork. Or deadlines. Or signatures. We do not want to wait for approvals or court dates. We want to run ahead of all of the people in front…
{Wave} One of my favorite memories of our trip to the beach was when my two middle children were playing in the waves. The five year old barely remembers the beach from two years ago, but the three year old was barely a year old. So, she was experiencing the waves for the first time. Not to be out done by her big brothers, she jumped right in and ran into the water the very first day. The huge waves…