by Melinda | Nov 9, 2014 | Fear, His Words, Hope, Uncategorized, Under His Wings, Working Out Faith
Every Sunday around here is for His words instead of mine. Feeling unsure about things? Today? The future? He has something to say about that. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your...
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 25, 2014 | A Heavenly Country, All Together Now, Free Indeed, He's Bigger than Me, His Words, Life on the Rock, My Country, Thankfulness, Uncategorized, Under His Wings
Every Sunday around here is for His Words instead of mine. Here are a few of them regarding patriotism, in honor of those who have and do sacrificially serve. Blessed is the country with God for God; blessed are the people he’s put in his...
by Melinda | May 24, 2014 | All in the Family, Contentedness, God Stories, Legacy, Life Abundant, Relationship, Trust, Uncategorized, Under His Wings, Working Out Faith
About five years ago, I wrote a piece about my mother-in-law. When a young woman faces the altar, she hopes against hope that she will have a good relationship with her husband’s mother, instead of the stereotypical alternative. However, I knew, going in,...
by Melinda | May 23, 2014 | Life on the Rock, Love Free, Motherhood, My Girls, Social Media, Thankfulness, Trust and Obey, Uncategorized, Under His Wings, Working Out Faith
I began this blog in 2007, and published the post below – my very first – on almost exactly this date that year. Because all social media is being flooded with graduation pictures and the mixed-emotion-laden posts of the new empty nesters, I pulled...
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...
