Beth (B) – Joy Lord, your joy. I want to feel your joy, see your joy, hear your joy, experience your joy. I want your answer to brokenness. Joy. Joy that surpasses understanding. Joy that is over the top, more than enough, joy. Lord your way, I am all in. Lord, give me your strength, love, wisdom, joy,
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A Changed Life
I began to write in my journal after a dinner discussion. I knew in the moment the discussion was bigger than the words. There was a spiritual message in the exchange and I received Holy Spirit clarity as I wrote. Acts 26:14-18 (TPT) We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in
Read MorePieces
Beth (B) – So much piece (yep, I circled and wrote peace above it) yesterday after my time sorting and listening. Thank you Lord. Pieces Lord? God (G) – Yes, pieces. B – Listening Lord. Help me slow down and settle in. G – I have been setting the pieces in place, the strong foundation. It has taken
Read MoreThe Splinter (Final of Three Parts on Bias)
Broken people spew and broken people lie, and broken people confuse truth with their broken view. This much I know. I also know enough to recognize a lie and to hear truth and I am praising Jesus that I have eyes to see and ears to hear. I ask for your eyes and your ears. How could I
Read MoreThe Splinter (Day Two)
Beth (B) – Woke up still hurting. I realize the strive for, performance still there. Bias in so many areas really limits what I can share. So I listen. Why opinion? Why verbalize bias? Why? It’s a wedge… God (G) – Only if you let it. Enemy desires but don’t do it. Just love. Exercise the unoffendable …
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Me
Lord Jesus thank you for these decades. Thank you for all your good work and for never leaving me as I am but continuing your good work through the ages. I am so excited about what you have in store for this next decade. I thank you most especially for your loving kindness, your faithful care, your gift
Read MoreThe Splinter (Part One of Three)
Yard work was the culprit. I came away with it embedded in the pad of my middle finger on my left hand. I didn’t realize it at the time. I only noticed it later in the day with the ache, swell and sharp pain. I could see the color and size, but it was buried. I needed to
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(and To God Be All the Glory) This is the final excerpt from Loving and Faithful. The title for this conclusion in my manuscript came to me as a nudge from the Holy Spirit. Curious about this French phrase meaning farewell, I looked up the definition and imagine my surprise when I found the origin of the word
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