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  • A Writer’s New Year Prayer
  • Trusting Christ During the Post-Christmas Let Down and Beyond
  • The Importance of Weeding Our Spiritual Gardens
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  • A Writer’s New Year Prayer

    January 1, 2026

    In this New Year Full of hope and promise Questions and uncertainty The wisdom to know that the only writing that will bring you glory flows from your streams of mercy Give me the wisdom to pray first and write second That all efforts outside of you are “filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6) The wisdom to…

  • The Importance of Weeding Our Spiritual Gardens

    August 22, 2025

    I would call myself a closet gardener. Growing up I read all of the Christian romances involving homesteaders.  I love growing and making my own food.  As I teach full time during the school year, however, I don’t always put the time into my garden that I need to.  To add to my responsibilities this…

  • Light in the Darkness

    March 6, 2025

    Like the disciples, we are easily frightened.  While we have the Holy Spirit, something they didn’t yet have, we don’t always know what to do with the people around us who think and live differently than us.  The truth?  The world around us lacks hope. As a public school teacher, I see it every day.…

  • My Own Unexpected Journal

    November 13, 2024

    I’m surprised I even recognized the name.  It had been years: more than ten, if my calculations are correct.  Not to mention the number of students I had taught since I had him: hundreds? Nevertheless, I recognized the last name and clicked on it.  Sure enough, this girl had married him, my former student. We…

  • One Voice, One Hope

    October 8, 2024

    www.facebook.com/share/p/hzzT6PJp4Pi1Ye1k/ My latest post for encourage about unity in the body of Christ

  • Why #MercyMe is the Most Influential Band in My Life

    October 3, 2024

    It’s funny how our senses imprint memories subconsciously.  A certain sound, smell, or feeling can come flooding back without our knowledge.  Deja Vous?  Maybe, but for me, my MercyMe journey started in 1999.  I was a first year English teacher at Greenville High School in Greenville, TX.  I did have family close, but I was…

  • A Reminder to “Look up” instead of at the world around us.

    July 4, 2024

    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/UwWsB8B6H6XaECz4/?mibextid=K35XfP

  • My latest post encourage on being available to what God has for us each day

    March 5, 2024

    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/272Gf5aHLkeq7vGY/?mibextid=K35XfP

  • The Quest for Peace

    January 8, 2024

    www.facebook.com/share/p/XzMj927Rv76w5Cj5/ My latest post for enCourage on peace.

  • For those who struggle with #prayer like I do

    November 16, 2023

    https://www.facebook.com/share/1WPtuM9KvaoYLzBW/?mibextid=K35XfP

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