by admin | Sep 14, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized
The anniversary of September 11 was a few days ago. I remember that morning clearly, like every one of you who was an adult alive at the time. It was a defining traumatic moment for the entire world. Left brain vs right brain dominance suggests that when the emotional...
by admin | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog, Gifts from Your Pain, Miracles, Uncategorized
In 2002, at a women’s event at my church, the Holy Spirit told me I was going to do something huge. I knew the voice of His Spirit, from way before that time. I’m sitting there, listening to the woman who was Corrie Ten Boom’s last secretary, talking about what she...
by admin | Dec 7, 2021 | Blog, Gifts from Your Pain, Uncategorized
In my work with Key Ministry, we’re shifting our focus a little for the next couple of years. As we’ve been working on our strategy, one of the things that God keeps bringing to my attention is the power of stories, especially transformational stories. You know what I...
by admin | Oct 20, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
“Take up your cross and follow Him.” This far removed from the physical reality of crucifixion in 30AD, it’s simply a platitude. A Sunday School saying. Something quickly forgotten as soon as your parents don’t force you to go to church. He invites YOU to come and...
by admin | Sep 20, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
We’re all more than a little fed up with COVID, with the anxiety, the limitations, the wildly different viewpoints that each insist that they are THE accurate science, as if ‘Science’ is the equivalent of God. In fact, substitute the word “God” in place of the word...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Gifts from Your Pain, Insights Into Mental Health and Autism, Uncategorized
I didn’t go to Harvard, but I did go to Harvard-on-the-Hill. That was the nickname for Virginia Western Community College a bunch of years ago. I would have much preferred to be really anywhere else. My grades and SAT scores weren’t quite as stellar as yours, but they...
by admin | Jul 28, 2021 | Blog, Insights Into Mental Health and Autism, Uncategorized
I raised a few eyebrows with a response to a social media post last fall. One of my friends countered a comment I made with a pointedly political statement. He knows me and the things I believe and stand for, but I’m confident my response wasn’t what He expected: “I...
by admin | Dec 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Crescendo: gradual, steady increase in loudness or force; steady increase in force or intensity; climactic point or moment in such an increase; ie, the peak. This year has been one set of intense things after another––and the intensity is not diminishing. With recent...
by admin | Sep 26, 2020 | Blog, Insights Into Mental Health and Autism, Miracles, Uncategorized
Old Testament prophets often lived out, on a smaller scale, what the entire nation of Israel was about to experience when God poured out judgment. Examples include Ezekiel laying on his side for over a year, bound, as a means of drawing attention to the corporate sins...
by admin | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog, Miracles, Uncategorized
I have been overwhelmed with the burden I feel for this nation and the upcoming election. I know people all over the political spectrum, and many of them claim to be Christian. Reality is that most of us are not that far apart in what we want for our families and our...
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