Assaulted by grace

As I found a quiet place to pray today, I climbed into the tub knowing I would be alone and hopefully undisturbed. I turned on some live worship like all oth...

Our little ones who are waiting our return to them

Almost every woman has lost a child at some point in her fertile years, and I believe Satan likes to torment us greater than even the torment of losing that precious little one. It is easy for me to just tell you, “yes they are in heaven, and yes I have even seen them there in my secret times with the father”.

 A few days after my baby died, when her autopsy was being performed. The father showed me her in his arms.  She was alive, and...

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The Big night scare ~What was that !

    The season is changing and I’m noticing just how overwhelming this month can be.  For some it’s getting the children back to school and juggling everything else. For others it’s bringing in the harvest and canning, juicing, and storing for the coming winter. Others are overwhelmed by health or family issues. Regardless, we feel the chilly breeze late evening and the crispness in the air in the early mornings. This last w...

Bloopers to Blessings

 Foul Play

  It was a normal day, at that point,___ and I was leisurely pushing a grocery cart around a popular supermarket. I had begun my day with a nice devotional time with the Lord and all was well.  I was almost done shopping, and my scribbled out list and a pen were kind of wrapped around the buggy handle as I pushed. It was the final isle; the crackers, cheese and the deli food, including the chicken rotisserie. One of the young employees behind the counter ha...

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Burnt Bellies & Unmentionables At The Office

       Many years ago, when we were still raising our family, my husband worked for a company that insisted on ‘ white shirt suit and tie’ business apparel.  That meant that even with some perma-press shirts ( that always needed some touch up back then) I spent considerable time ironing.  At first, as a young bride, I tended to resent this pastime. My dad had been a scaler who rolled and measured logs out o...

It’s not just a temper! You are an uncut Wild Jem

For ALL my strong Ladies!

Just so you know, you are not the only one !

I am learning that when God calls strong Men, they have strong powerful women, unfortunately often willful un-submissiveness, and overbearing and stubborn. Your thinking “ya that is my curse a tongue”! Well you know, there is a reason you are so strong natured. The truth is you were chosen for that purpose that strength, you were hand picked to be his wife, bec...

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“Hey wait for me!”

  During voice lessons, while preparing a little boy to sing a song about a squirrel, I asked him what the little squirrels were doing at this time of the year, and we agreed that they were gathering food for the winter. I then asked him, where they kept all of their acorns and nuts? With wide eyed innocently, he replied: “In their refrigerators”.

My husband, who was passing by remarked:” Those poor little squirrels would have a hard t...

The Squeaky Chicken ( For Moms and kids)

  Years ago, we had a little white dog named Goldie.  Goldie was very playful and had lots of toys.  Every once in a while she got a favorite.  Often it was one of her green tennis balls.  She would get attached to one of them and wouldn’t  go after any other ball, even though they looked exactly the same to us, she knew  the difference.

 When she was attached to one thing, she had to carry it with her wherever she went.  At bedtime if the favo...

                                                                                     THE PRETTY RED SHOES

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When I was a little girl, about seven or eight years old, I learned an important lesson.   Back in those days children often wore a type of shoe called a saddle shoe.  They were called ‘saddle shoes’ because the white shoes that tied up with laces had a blue piece of leather across the middle that looked a little like a horse’s saddle. 

  Each fall when I had grown out ...

Faith, and fear as bedfellows I think not !

 I was recently blessed with an understanding that I would like to share with you. I have always known that The Lord has blessed me with the spiritual gift of faith . “Well how do I know”, he told my spirit it is that simple. I have always been the “glass is half full” , If the sun is not shining for the Sunday school picnic just wait a minuet.  through this faith I have seen incredible mountains moved and healings and prayers answered than...

Letting your foolishness shine His Character!

It only takes a moment to screw up and yet even in our most ashamed state we can use those mistakes to shine Gods character! it seem we never run out of foolishness and character flaws always falling far below the goals we set for ourselves as Christians. Some would say God has no mark , you are good enough just as you are yet that is a lie as He says “we are to strive towards the mark of the high calling, and be ye holy as I am holy ,” so ho...

Is Porn OK for Christian couples?

Every relationship has its ups, and downs which shows in levels of intimacy. Stress, work, kids, babies, and bellies. All have there role in the levels of well functioning intimacy. For couples who are devoted Christians, and are not looking out side there own bedroom for spice, what can be done? Porn?

Well I can tell you this; this was something that was suggested to us in the early years of our marriage by two different Christian couples, one younger in ...

Isaiah 40:11
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

This verse has always been close to my heart and has held me close the last two years. I have drank deep the river of sorrow and swam in the temptuious ocean through the crashing waves of pain and fear, but as hard as I swam I struggled to cling to the promise, to the realization that the Lord was holding me, I could go...

A Christian Marriage Can still hurt!

Did you know if this is you are not alone and neither I he!

Every single guy is faces daily with the choice to take that second glance

Moreover, almost every Christian even pastors are either Fighting or fooling in hard core Porn.

If this is you peaking around the door for the first time, it can be a very overwhelming, and emotional. A moment that can either destroy of feed your future faith and love. Believe it or not, most guys are not doing it b...

I like to rise before the sun. Not always awake, I stagger into the kitchen, and sit in my comfy chair. At the big bay window across from my honey, he pours me a cup of coffee, and before he take off for work we enjoy our sacred alone time. Sometimes a little one quietly slips into my lap unnoticed, is kissed cuddles then sent back down stairs to look at his story bible for devotions, as this quiet time with my lover is just for us. He kisses me good-bye, and is off to the shop to spend his f...

Christian Goblins or angels a night to remember!

At school, we wrote poems of ghoulish glop and witches brew the grosser the better almost as if competing for the best yuck. As soon as I could write, my hands eagerly created the poetry that I knew would make me popular in my class. However, when I got home I found a different story I learned that the weeks prior to this hallowed (Holy) night were not as it seemed.

 Millions of Christian around the World are shopping and planning for the fun...

Stealing time for God and mommy – Receiving From the Father

I find that in my busy life often your morning steals you away before you ever get to open your eyes, say good morning, or even go to the bathroom. How do we interrupt this storm of chaos as there is always another dipper or a mess on the floor and then when you finally get it all settled you go to sit down and it’s time to cook supper . So here, it is if you want more time with dad ask for it!

Receiving from the Father

 God ...

Psalm 42:8 Amplified Bible
Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

There is nothing more beautiful to me than when the lord wakes me with songs upon my lips ,when the Holy Spirit Sings sweet love in harmony with my Spirit and I wake praising Him My whole day is them ruptured by his presence even when life happens His presence keeps me captured and at peace . So I lay I hold Him in the Morning ...

I recently read this beautiful post I hope it speaks to your heart as much as it did mine .

WE MISSED THE WEDDING!
Do you remember reading the wonderful testimony of the Waller family in the last issue of Above Rubies # 86 (they serve the vineyard farmers on the West Bank of Israel)? This last weekend Colin and I looked forward to attending the wedding of their daughter, Victoria to Aaron Hood. Everyone was invited to come for the whole weekend to Kenlake State Park in Kentucky. We did not...

A half baked Idea on half jobs

In our home like all other homes, there are times when it isn’t all done unto the lord if you get my drift. So after much prayer seeking advice from the lord one morning I awoke with a revelation I would like to call my Half-Baked Idea. Firstly, I would like to state for the record that my husband pre-approved my plan.

It all started one creative morning when the Lord Impressed upon me a creative way to deeply impress upon the minds of our children and our u...

Coming to the end of oneself

Flourishing in the desert  

Alive in the fire 

Lord Soften My heart to hear yours

So often, we find ourselves battling in life a situation that seem so final, so much bigger than our ability to cope. It is during these times that we often lose hope, faith and even the ability to trust our maker. Having held death in my arms and kissing it bitter sweetness, I can understand the pains, and agony heartache can bring. Nevertheless, God has placed in nature lessons t...

•   Never throw you away 

•   Never throw you beyond his reach 

•   Never throw you farther than  you can handle 

Abiding

So much of; growing in faith is about learning to handle our disappointments when God does not show up in a situation as we expect He should. It is at these crucial times the voice of the enemy comes to deceive us, and tempt us not to put our ...hope in the Lord for any thing any more, “After all why allow yourself to be disappointed again”?

Through it all God's voice continues to whisper,

“You can trust me completely to work my perfect plan in the best way possible, ...