Category: Ministry

  • Wonder Who?

  • Let the River Flow – What a Blessing!

    Let the River Flow – What a Blessing!

    (Excerpt from Shekinah Lane.) It had been a quiet morning reflecting on God’s goodness. I had just finished reading the devotional in My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers for September 6. He compared our lives to a river and how out of us will flow the rivers that will bless to the uttermost…

  • Arise My Love

    Arise My Love

    Every February when I read devotions from “My Utmost for His Highest”, I remember this part of our lives.

  • Celebration

    Celebration

    She’s a celebrity now! After all, her pictures are displayed on the big screen. Pictures ranged from kindergarten to her wedding, small children, family group photos, the wedding of her oldest daughter and then the first grandchild to an intimate scene with her husband as her health was waning. Not the theatre marquee for this…

  • Faith, Feathers and Family

    Shekinah Lane Psalm 102:18 “Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the Lord.” The wispy peacock feathers on the teal green background of my Bible cover brought back many memories as I prepared for communion Sunday morning in 2012 at House of Prayer Church in Blairsville,…

  • Do you think before you speak?

    During a recent bout with laryngitis I was reminded of the number of words a woman uses daily versus the number a man uses. Louann Brizendine who wrote The Female Brain concluded that women use 20,000 words per day while men use 7,000. More recent studies do not agree with his findings. But in my…

  • First not possible without last

    An evaluation of my book proposal arrived.  The same questions were posed, the same things I have been wrestling with for over three years – Who is your audience? Why are you writing? What is the thread that will pull the book together? After searching my first five chapters and the questions presented by the…

  • Foolish Scrapper to Wise Servant

    She reached up, grabbed him and dug her long fingernails into his arm until blood squirted out.  He responded by hitting her in the jaw, knocking her out. John had taken out his seventh grade teacher at Park Street Elementary, Ms. Chapman, but she wasn’t the true target. During recess, John’s team won at softball.…