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GEMS
My mission is to encourage people through writing.I would like to make you feel cheered, loved and understood. I want to relay a message of hope through God.No matter what the topic of conversation, I hope to affect you positively so you can in return be more loving, kinder and happier.I invite you to join me on this journey.
Disclaimer:Yes, I believe in Jesus Christ. Yes, I am human and have many flaws. Yes, I am a hypocrite. Yes, I am a work in progress.
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Sep 12, 20172 min read
Team Work
Too bad my Chicago Bears lost, but at least is was a close game that came down to the last eight seconds…I about had a heart attack!...
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Jun 13, 20173 min read
Battles
In case you don’t know who Lysa is, she is the founder and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries. Additionally, she is an author, blog...
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Jun 23, 20152 min read
Trying Versus Training
I’m SO MAD AT MYSELF!!!  I usually do so much better than this! I have a million excuses I could come up with, but the down and dirty is...
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Apr 6, 20153 min read
Meeting Jesus
As I listened to the sermon that listed the many prophesies of the coming of Christ and what would happen and then to the numerous...
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Mar 30, 20153 min read
Toeing the Line
It’s not that having or attaining knowledge is all that hard, but the humility that comes along with wisdom throws most of us for a loop!...
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Mar 11, 20153 min read
The Cancer That Really Kills
Susan was such an amazing person with a penchant for life! Sadly, her family and friends have been robbed of her contagious laughter and...
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Feb 16, 20153 min read
Identity Crisis
Halloween 2014 – don’t really know what I was, but I loved the face tatoo! Our actions speak volumes about who we really are from the...
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Sep 9, 20143 min read
Watch What You Say
By evil, I mean the words we say out loud others. Words are powerful. They have the ability to help or hurt on the turn of a dime and...
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Aug 21, 20142 min read
Sleeping with the Enemy
Everyone likes a happy ending. The problem is that many of ‘sleep’ with the enemy on a regular basis. Not literally, but by keeping too...
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Apr 10, 20143 min read
Letting Go (Part Two)
On Tuesday, I touched a little bit on how embracing such poison becomes a habit, a crutch and strangely enough, a comfort. In fact, most...
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Apr 3, 20142 min read
Encourage Each Other
Needless to say, it was not by ‘coincidence’ that I read the Hebrews verse below in a recent devotional I often peruse. But encourage one...
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Mar 6, 20142 min read
Giving it up to God
Yep, that’s my forehead! Yesterday was Ash Wednesday. Of course, this means that the march towards Easter is under way and the ‘reason...
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Feb 20, 20143 min read
What Temps You?
Sharon, a member of the Girlfriends in God daily blog team, wrote about Eve listening to the lies of Satan when she chose to eat a piece...
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Feb 18, 20143 min read
The Woman at the Well
I love that story of the woman at the well! It perfectly demonstrates Jesus’ compassion for sinners like me and how He meets us right...
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Feb 6, 20143 min read
What is Sin?
Pretty sure my card is snuggled comfortably next to my drivers’ license since I use it often. Sigh. According to Webster’s Dictionary,...
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Feb 4, 20143 min read
Sinners’ Anonymous
All of us have one, but we sure don’t like to admit it. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we...
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Oct 31, 20133 min read
Skeletons
Image courtesy of Maggie Smith/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net Halloween seems like a perfect time to pull out the skeletons from the closet, dust...
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Sep 3, 20133 min read
The Prayer Problem
Lately, my prayer life has stunk it up to kingdom come. For some reason, I have been going through the motions of reading scriptures and...
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Aug 22, 20133 min read
Here We Go…Again
How is it that I can desire something SO bad, but NOT follow through? AND why is it easier to stand still or continue down the wrong...
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Jul 2, 20132 min read
Christmas in July
Do you know how hard it is to get into Christmas decorations when it’s 110 degrees outside? Well, let me just say it’s HARD. However,...
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