by Melinda | Feb 7, 2014 | Free Indeed, He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Life Abundant, Life on the Rock, Lover of My Soul, Thankfulness, Trust
I watched an episode of a TV show yesterday, where a pregnant woman and a doctor were trapped in a badly damaged car, after an accident in the mountains. The pregnant woman was due, and after the trauma of the accident, the baby started to come, but she had...
by Melinda | Jan 30, 2014 | Free Indeed, Get Real, He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Heart talk, Life Abundant, Life on the Rock, Listen and Learn, Thankfulness, Trust
I pulled into the garage, yesterday, with a car full of groceries, and, since Kevin’s car was gone, had a clear view of the opposite wall. Our house sits on a slab, and the garage is sunken, requiring steps to walk down into it from the house. Because of...
by Melinda | Jan 27, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, God in the Everyday, In the Eye of the Beholder, Mimmie's Heart, Thankfulness, Travel, Trust
The scene is the bathtub, and the players are 3-year-old Lilli, and her 10-month-old brother, Brody. Brody is quite enamored with his big sister, as most babies are with bigger kids, and Lilli can make him laugh like nobody’s business, so it seemed like a...
by Melinda | Jan 21, 2014 | About Me, Listen and Learn, Living the God Life, Mimmie's Heart, Travel, Trust, Uncategorized
You know those merry-go-rounds that used to be on playgrounds? The kind where you would run as fast as you could to push it and get it going, then jump onto the spinning contraption and hang on for dear life? That’s what my life has been feeling like,...
by Melinda | Jan 20, 2014 | Giving, He's Bigger than Me, Heart talk, Legacy, Living Low, Lover of My Soul, Motherhood, The Glory of Friends, Trust, Uncategorized
On this day, thirty-one years ago, my friend had a baby. She was quite young, and the pregnancy unplanned, and the future of the child – a boy – was uncertain in her care. She loved him in all his sweet and innocent goodness, this flesh of her...
by Melinda | Jan 19, 2014 | God in the Everyday, He's Bigger than Me, His Words, Lover of My Soul, Thankfulness, Trust
I’ve decided something. Sundays are not a day for my words. They are a day for His words. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” John 14:27 NLT...