by Melinda | Jun 18, 2014 | Healing Hearts, Hope, Life Abundant, Love Free, Lover of My Soul, Trust, Truth, Uncategorized, Under His Wings, Working Out Faith
I’m reading The Fault in our Stars, by John Green. Literally, the very first page found me highlighting a quote (from what I now understand to be a fictional book) because of two words. It goes like this: As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced...
by Melinda | May 18, 2014 | Healing Hearts, Heart talk, His Words, Hope
Every Sunday around here is for His words, instead of mine. If your heart is heavy, hurting, or completely broken, these are for you. “Is anyone crying for help? God is listening, ready to rescue you. If your heart is broken, you’ll find God right...
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 1, 2014 | He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Hope, Living the God Life, Lover of My Soul
I was sitting at a stop light a couple of days ago with Emmie, and the two kids, in their car seats, in the back seat. I glanced to my left, and there was a large church on the corner with a marquee on their sign. You know how some churches will have the...
by Melinda | Apr 24, 2014 | All Together Now, Claim to Fame, Giving, He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Hope, It's Not About Me, Living Low, Love Free, Reaching Out, Relationship
Right now, there are three additional hearts beating under my roof. Three of my very favorites, as a matter of fact. Emmie, Lilli and Brody rolled in, late afternoon, after Papa picked them up from the airport, and a blissfully uneventful flight over. We helped...
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...