by Melinda | Jan 4, 2016 | Christmas, Free Indeed, Get Real, Healing Hearts, Heart talk, Home on the Range, Life Abundant, Living Low
I have purging on the brain. I can think of nothing else, really, and feel almost like an expectant mother in the throes of nesting, such is my urgency. Every cabinet, every drawer, seemingly threatens to spill its contents at my feet upon every opening. I feel...
by Melinda | Jan 1, 2016 | About Me, Be the Light, Claim to Fame, God in the Everyday, It's Not About Me, Life Abundant, Life on the Rock, Living Low, Living the God Life, Uncategorized
This is the 52nd time I’ve awakened on a New Year’s Day, and it occurs to me that I’m standing at the precipice of 52 fresh weeks before I awaken, Lord willing, on another one. I’m certain, based on personal experience, that they will...
by Melinda | Dec 26, 2015 | Christmas, Eyes Wide Open, Free Indeed, Get Real, Heart talk, Life Abundant, The Great Uncomfortable
Here I sit, amidst the wreckage. Piles of boxes and gifts everywhere. Toys, shiny and new, lining the walls. My babies are asleep in their beds, and their mother has hit the road for a much needed vacation, so they are with us for the next eight days. Yesterday was a...
by Melinda | Dec 24, 2015 | Christmas, Free Indeed, He Knows Me, Healing Hearts, Heart talk, Hope, Life Abundant, Life on the Rock, Sacrifice, Self Help, Thankfulness, Trust and Obey, Truth, Working Out Faith
I thought I might do a little something, this year, that would help me focus on what this season is really about, and maybe it could help you, too. I’m going to take the story of Jesus’s birth, found in Luke 2, and go verse by verse, 1 through 24, to see what happens....
by Melinda | Dec 21, 2015 | Christmas, Free Indeed, Life Abundant, Living Low, Thankfulness
I thought I might do a little something, this year, that would help me focus on what this season is really about, and maybe it could help you, too. I’m going to take the story of Jesus’s birth, found in Luke 2, and go verse by verse, 1 through 24, to see what happens....
by Melinda | Dec 18, 2015 | Christmas, God Stories, He's Bigger than Me, Hope, Life Abundant, Lover of My Soul, Sacrifice, Thankfulness, Truth
I thought I might do a little something, this year, that would help me focus on what this season is really about, and maybe it could help you, too. I’m going to take the story of Jesus’s birth, found in Luke 2, and go verse by verse, 1 through 24, to see what happens....