by Melinda | Apr 11, 2023 | Do the Right Thing, Free Indeed, Get Real, Obedience, Uncategorized
“To think I wasn’t even allowed to watch Three’s Company.” That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw a video, last week, of some school children (the same ages as two of my grandchildren) in the Netherlands. They sat on a stage,...
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 | Feb 9, 2016 | Home on the Range, Hope for the Trail, Life Abundant, Life on the Rock, Living in the Moment, Obedience, Thankfulness, Trust, Trust and Obey, Uncategorized, Under His Wings
I hadn’t walked down on the property in a while, life just being too darn busy. But I found myself with an unexpected day off, yesterday, and decided to strike out for some fresh air. When I got down to the bottom pasture, I realized the horses were down there....
by Melinda | Jan 26, 2016 | Disappointment, Grief, Hard Times, Heart talk, Hope, Life on the Rock, Obedience, Prayer, Thankfulness, Trust and Obey, Under His Wings
Sometimes you pray, and pray, and pray, and then you pray some more. You throw yourself down, face to the carpet, begging God for the deepest desire of your heart, crying what seem like tears of blood into the fibers that brush your face. You ask others to pray...
by Melinda | Jan 9, 2016 | Eyes Wide Open, He's Bigger than Me, Life on the Rock, Listen and Learn, Obedience, Purpose, Thankfulness, The Great Uncomfortable, Trust, Truth, Uncategorized, Under His Wings, Working Out Faith
I have a good friend who just got back from Key West. She went with her daughter, and I asked, when I discovered they were going, if they chose to go there because they were Hemingway fans. That wasn’t the reason, but his Key West house is one of my...
by Melinda | Dec 5, 2015 | Christmas, Life on the Rock, Obedience
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....