Recently, I participated in a week long session about self love. As the speaker was talking she asked the question, “Who are you performing for?”  I thought that was an interesting question. To understand that question, you must understand the context. She was sharing stories of her life and how she felt inadequate at times as a mom and wife. Things had to be right and if they were not; she would be very critical of herself. Fear had set in on many levels and would always

tell her what…

My husband and I recently did some serious housecleaning. We did not realize how much we had accumulated over the years. When we finally did, we began wondering why we were keeping some of the stuff we had stored away. We had bills from five to ten years ago, clothes that we could not give away, and Christmas decorations from the Stone Age of our early relationship days. My husband use to be the classic pack rat. He simply did not believe in throwing anything away. When I asked…

From time to time I purge my house.  I throw away things that no longer serve me. Once in a while, I come across things I forgot all about.  My rule for that is, if I have not seen or thought about it in over year, it’s time to throw it away.  In the book of Philippians, Paul talks about forgetting these things which are behind and reaching forth to those things which are before. The word “forget” is defined in Webster’s dictionary “the ability to lose remembrance of or to be unable to…

I remember asking God why my prayers weren’t being answered.  He asked me to think about what I was speaking out of my mouth. Proverbs 18:21 says “death and life are in the power of the tongue.”   Words have power and like seeds they are going to harvest a good crop, bad crop or no crop at all.  What seeds are you sowing out of your mouth?   What are you speaking in your life?  Better yet, what is being sown into your life? Words are like food; you can choose to eat the healthy or…

I love Sam Cooke’s song “A Change is Gonna Come.”  In the beginning of the song he starts out by saying: “I was born in a little tent and just like the river I’ve been running ever since.  It’s been a long time coming but I know a change gonna come.”   Are you running to and fro wondering if God is going to fulfill his promise?  You know the story of the people of Israel. I know, I’ve heard it so many times.  I probably could recite in my sleep (I’ll…