What the Nesting Mama Reveals About God

Nesting is a curious thing mothers universally do, tirelessly carrying the proverbial sticks in our beaks to create a place for our babies to belong. I remember hoisting our living room rug out the front door at 40 weeks because I decided it was too disgusting to be...

Juggling

I was on my way to a luncheon in which a local ministry was recruiting help from church congregations in order to reach our city. I was praying about my part and how God might want to marry this ministry with the ministry He has given me. As we were told, what would...

A Journey with Jay

A Journey with Jay   Picture with me Jesus standing up with a loud voice saying to you, “If you are thirsty come to me and drink.” John 7:37-39 The Greek wording for this actually means that Jesus stood up and cried that out with a loud voice. In the spiritual...
Leave, Cleave and Weave

Leave, Cleave and Weave

She was a 20 year old mother of three, ages three and under, having left family and all that was familiar to support her young husband in his desire to pursue a college education. They lived in the Tony Sudekum Housing Project in Nashville, Tennessee in 1957. He...
Good News for the Good Girl

Good News for the Good Girl

“How is your heart?” This question has been a loving invitation from my Heavenly Father to give Him my whole heart. An invitation to go into a deeper relationship with Him. An invitation for reconciliation over retaliation. A life of love over anger. An...