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Not a Day Late, Nor a Dollar Short

Not a Day Late, Nor a Dollar Short

by | Feb 27, 2026 | , , ,

It was a Thursday when long-time friends of ours, and supporters from our days in ministry, felt God lay us on their hearts. They wrote a check and put it in the mail. Thousands of miles away, we were unaware. In our neck of the woods, there wasn’t much unusual going on. Monday through Friday, my husband and I have a strong routine. We’re up before the sun and busy ‘til the day is done. After work, we’re exchanging stories, hitting the gym, and eating supper with a little TV. Throw in a call...

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Sweet Surrender

Sweet Surrender

by | Sep 30, 2025 | ,

Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves. Matthew 6:33 Seek first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. When I was growing up in a Jesus-loving, Bible-believing home where we did our best to make God the center of our life and decisions, my parents taught me the definition of true joy - Jesus, Others, and You. I learned Bible verses like these ones,...

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Warrior for Joy

Warrior for Joy

by | Sep 8, 2025 | ,

 Jesus calls me His Warrior for Joy. Coming to this realization has been a process. All children of the Most High God share a common identity, just like siblings do; and each one has a unique personality and gifting. I want to share with you some of my joyful journey into this God-given identity. The family and culture I grew up in communicated that being a deva would make me happy and successful. So the identity I inherited and sought for was in relation to physical beauty, social status, and...

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Helping Hand

Helping Hand

by | Sep 8, 2025 | ,

I’m not a great art aficionado or adept at anything medical, so when both of those things converged in my life in the same week, they caught my attention. However, when a third “coincidence” happened, I realized something else might be going on. Those three things confirmed the truth of a quote I once read, “Lord, please make it happen in the most impossible way so they know it’s only You who could have done it.” It really did seem impossible.  The first part of this trifecta happened at my...

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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

by | Aug 26, 2025 | , , , , , ,

FOLLOW-UP TO   "A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS" Hebrews 10:23-24 (NAS) says, "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds..." When Jeff came to our Wednesday life group for corporate prayer, after his most recent cancer diagnosis, our "Family Strong," as Jeff calls us, surrounded him, literally. He sat on the coffee table in our living room and became hidden in the fold of...

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I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

by | Aug 19, 2025 | , , , , , ,

A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS - PART ONE 1985 is when I met the love of my life. Her name is Tina. We got married the following year in 1986. We talked about having kids and in 1991 we were excited to find out she was pregnant. I already had a son from my first marriage, Kris, so I was hoping to have a daughter one day, too. Unfortunately, she had a miscarriage a couple months in. We were heartbroken. In January of 1993 I found out I had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Thankfully the cancer was localized...

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I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

by | Aug 19, 2025 | , , , , , , , ,

A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS - PART TWO In summer of 2005, my daughter asked if she could go to a church camp with her friend. Following that trip, she started regularly attending church with her friend and her friend’s family. And after a while, my daughter started asking me to go to church with her. It took a few attempts, but she finally convinced me to go with her. So I went and then found myself attending on a regular basis. I felt it was time for me to reconnect my relationship with the...

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I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

by | Aug 19, 2025 | , , , , , , ,

A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS - PART THREE On March the 25th, 2019, I had an appointment at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida to start a new drug to see if my heart would function better. They admitted me so I could be monitored. Unfortunately, after a day and a half, they had to stop the drug. It was causing my heart to beat too fast. All the monitors in my hospital room were going off, signaling my heart was in distress. This was when I knew I had reconnected with Christ and made my...

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Blessings in disguise

Blessings in disguise

by | Aug 18, 2025 | ,

God's Sovereignty in our Suffering:  Proverbs 31:10 posed a unique question when it asked, “An excellent wife who can find?”  In response to this, I thought about several Biblical marriages and was hard pressed to find many wives who would fit the bill. Solomon, who had 700 wives, gave this gem of wisdom in Proverbs 21:9, “It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.” I’m not sure how many houses he owned, but Solomon probably spent a lot of...

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