Category: Loving and Faithful

(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

The breeze is moving – some things are shuddering, rattling, briskly shaking, while others just rustle and sway. How like us this is? When Holy Spirit moves, some of us don’t budge, while others get swept up. Specifically, some of our parts won’t budge – want to hold on and not be shaken – while other parts want

John 8:6 (TPT) They were only testing Jesus because they hoped to trap him with his own words and accuse him of breaking the laws of Moses. But Jesus didn’t answer them. Instead he simply bent down and wrote in the dust with his finger. I love that he didn’t turn to the evil accusers. John 8:7-8 (TPT)

And you Lord, weeks later, remind me to go back to a recording I made on a walk. “I’m repeating (singing) ‘I lay it down. I lay it down. I lay it down.’ And I am thinking about the “it” and it is the thing that puts an expectation on what God is suppose to do and I

Monet shows me the complexity of a view. He sees and is able to record the variances. His perspective from above, or on the water, or from afar, looking down and then the remarkable measuring of differences on similar subjects – the different times of day, the ways the light plays on things – it is fleeting and

Driving two 16-year-old boys to baseball practice. It’s sprinkling, raining, snowing. We banter and chat. And then I say it – be a Noah. So think about this while it’s raining during practice. When God asked Noah to build an ark, Noah was faced with some big choices. It had never rained before in the history of the

Beth (B) – Where do I rest and where do I push? Where do I expect and where do I lay aside? Lord, give me your Holy Spirit wisdom today, just for today. Lord, help me to steward well in this – I am wanting to be – be still and be settled and be doing only what

It was a question for my son. We had struggled toward the end of his school day and as I walked I thought. But wait. While I was focused on his behavior, you focused me on mine. Beth (B) – What God? What looks best to you: What do you want me focusing on? And dear Lord, where

I woke up this morning looking for lamp shades. I need 2, maybe 3, and I saw them at Target but too pricey. I started on the IKEA website and remembered Cole asked for a desk, so I looked at some. Nope. Then to Craig’s List. Nope. Then to Nextdoor. Wait, What? A free old solid wood desk

It was our regular walking route. An occasional break during lunch that we could catch up and share and synch hearts with you. We had done a loop and decided as we neared the “end” we would do one more shorter loop. A reminder again that you know all, you see all, you hear all. You knew exactly