by Melinda | May 21, 2014 | All Together Now, Free Indeed, Get Real, He's Bigger than Me, Hope, Life Abundant, Listen and Learn, Lover of My Soul, Trust and Obey, Uncategorized, Under His Wings, Working Out Faith
It had been sitting there for a couple of weeks, at least, maybe a month. The stack of paper that needed to be sorted through and filed hadn’t been shrinking, as I had hoped, but was growing instead. Finally, it was no longer giving me a small wave, or...
by Melinda | May 15, 2014 | All Together Now, Eyes Wide Open, Free Indeed, Get Real, God in the Everyday, Hope, Life Abundant, Listen and Learn, My Politics, Thankfulness, This Magic Moment, Trust, Truth, Working Out Faith
I have this really cool tablet, with a quote at the bottom of each page that you can tear off and tuck in a lunch box, or tie to a gift. My mom bought it for me on the sly, right when we were in the same store, and I have benefited from her sneakiness, because...
by Melinda | May 14, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, Free Indeed, Get Real, He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Hope, Life Abundant, Lover of My Soul, Relationship, Truth, Working Out Faith
Have you ever worked to get a stain out of a piece of clothing, and, thinking it was completely gone, only discovered later that it wasn’t? You know what I’m talking about. Maybe you treated a stain, pulled it out of the wash and couldn’t find...
by Melinda | May 3, 2014 | Free Indeed, He's Bigger than Me, It's Not About Me, Life Abundant, Listen and Learn, Living the God Life, Mimmie's Heart, Rest, Working Out Faith
I woke up singing “For the First Time in Forever,” which is the prominent song for the “Anna” character in the movie Frozen. It’s absolutely no wonder, because I’ve watched the movie at least three times since the kids have...
by Melinda | Apr 22, 2014 | Free Indeed, God in the Everyday, He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Hope, Life on the Rock, Living the God Life, Lover of My Soul, Rest, Trust, Uncategorized
I took Riley to the vet, the other day, for his checkup and shots. Since his actual death experience while we were in Europe, he hasn’t been too keen on the vet’s office, and, seriously, who can blame him? If I had died somewhere and lived to wag my...
by Melinda | Apr 18, 2014 | Free Indeed, God Stories, He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Hope, Life Abundant, Lover of My Soul, Thankfulness, The Church, Trust, Truth, Uncategorized
Back in 2010, I wrote a piece about Good Friday. I thought about it this morning and couldn’t remember how long it had been, so I pulled it up and felt the strongest urging to repost it. So, here it is. It’s likely that many of you have never read it, so I...
