by Melinda | Jul 25, 2016 | Be the Light, Hope, It's Not About Me, Living Low, My Country, My Politics, Purpose, Working Out Faith
It has been so long since I’ve written in this place that I discovered the theme we’d originally built the site on was no longer working with the current WordPress platform, and I had to have my web designer update it to work. That’s why it looks slightly different, but – BONUS – you can easily read from a handheld device now.
#winning.
by Melinda | Mar 6, 2016 | Living the God Life, My Country, My Politics, Obedience, Purpose
It came to my attention that 25 million evangelicals who were registered to vote in the 2012 presidential election DID NOT VOTE. The margin was 5 million. I thought it might be interesting to see what God has to say about voting. Choose for your tribes...
by Melinda | Mar 2, 2016 | Be the Light, He's Bigger than Me, Hope, My Country, My Politics, Reaching Out
On this morning after Super Tuesday, when it appears that the country has lost its mind, I am going to talk about something that doesn’t have anything but a positive effect on my blood pressure: Rainbows and kittens. “She jests,” you might be...
by Melinda | Mar 1, 2016 | All Together Now, Eyes Wide Open, Get Real, He's Bigger than Me, Humility, My Country, My Politics, Trust and Obey, Under His Wings
I’m heading to the polls today, like many of you. Truly, I feel like I’m carrying a two-ton weight on my back as I go, a burden of frustration and disheartened sadness that I’ve never before carried into an election. I know that whomever sits...
by Melinda | Feb 27, 2016 | All in the Family, My Country
I’m sitting in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., as I write this. Here for my cousin, Brigadier General J.B. Burton’s, military retirement, I watched as his 31 year career with the Army was honored. He has had 18 posts, and 9 deployments, including...
by Melinda | Nov 14, 2015 | Fear, He's Bigger than Me, Hope, Life on the Rock, My Country, Prayer, Trust, Uncategorized
I woke up to an update on last night’s events in Paris, with ISIS accepting responsibility for the attacks that killed over 100 people and injured many more. In a statement calling the act “blessed,” they claimed it was the “first of the...
