Jeremy

My other biological child, Jeremy texted me yesterday!

We are going out to lunch next week!

Wow! God is so good!

Love those ears!

Our God creates the most beautiful and unique creatures! 🐰🐰

What a lovely little family! 😍

Dorrance Publishing

I am so excited! Dorrance Publishing has picked up my book to be published.

So, not it will not only be self published,  but it will also be published by a national book publishing company!

So grateful!!

Hitting your pause button

Even as Jesus lived fully as a human being, He lived every day and every moment fully dependent upon the Father for direction and provision. He didn't do a thing without Him. And so, no matter how briefly, Jesus paused. And in the moments of delay, the Father communicated with the Son.

We would do well to live after the same manner as Jesus did; hitting our own personal pause button in the face of urgent needs and desires means we believe something else defines reality and that Someone else may well have something He'd like to do.That's faith!

While it can be very difficult in the face of pressing needs and desires, pausing on purpose is a significant point of faith.

By a simple delay, we can know God and follow His leading, whether that's to say something, say nothing, do something, do nothing, or simply hear Him or share in His feelings.

God's Astounding Opinion of You by Ralph Harris

Sugar Street Sweets

This is a cake my friend Amy Crisp made for Christmas.
If anyone is interested in beautiful home baked goodies for events, parties, or holidays go to Sugar Street Sweets!

Sugar Street Sweets is also on Facebook and Twitter!

All of God's colors

Here are all the colors of the rainbow in, of all things, a lizard!! Gorgeous!

Another one of God's majestic creations!

No life sentence

When you have the Holy Spirit residing inside of you, struggles and strongholds need not be a life sentence.
Whether it's addiction, mental illness, or even gossip and envy, real freedom is possible this side of the cross!

We have incomparably great power because we believe. That power is like the work of His mighty strength when He raised Christ from the dead. Ephesians 1:19&20

So excited!

One of my biological children texted me yesterday. He told me he will be back at OBU on the 26th and asked if I want to have lunch with him!

I am so excited for the opportunity to connect with him!

Giving my children up for adoption was the hardest thing I have ever done, but God, in his infinite grace provided the perfect family to adopt and raise my children.  I am so grateful for God's abundant blessings!

Neighbor Blessings

I spent the evening with my neighbors Sally and Connie.
We were working on paperwork for the home owners association.

It made me think about how God has used the neighborhood I live in to build solid friendships. God has also taught me how to resolve conflict and how to glorify Him in the midst of conflict.

God will use whatever situation or environment that you are in to teach you biblical truths so that you can grow in intimacy with Him.
Our part is to have a willing heart and mind. He will take care of the rest! 😊💕

The Holy Spirit and the Law

The ministry of the law, which rightly condemned me, brought out my failures.
But the ministry of the Spirit brings out His success.
The good work of the law was always to condemn and bring death.
The work of the Holy Spirit is always to convince believers of our complete and eternal righteousness in Christ.
The law brought imprisonment.
But the Holy Spirit convicts us that we have been made free from sin through one final sacrifice and been given the righteousness of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

God's Astounding Opinion of You by Ralph Harris

Lee Strobel quote

Here is a quote from former atheist, now world renown  Christian apologist, Lee Strobel:

"To continue in atheism, I'd need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness and non-reason produces reason.
I didn't have that much faith."