The Beauty of a Broken Heart

by Melinda | Feb 13, 2009 | Living the God Life, Working Out Faith

Seems an odd post title on this day before Valentine’s Day, doesn’t it? Before the vision of a lonely and dejected young woman, surrounded by chocolates she bought for herself, settles uncomfortably in your mind, read on!I ran across a verse in Joel this...

My Hope is Built on Nothing Less

by Melinda | Feb 3, 2009 | God in the Everyday, God Stories, Living the God Life, Working Out Faith

Hope.It’s a word that’s been popping up around me lately like so much hyacinth in spring. “Hope against hope”…”I’m about to give up hope”…”All we can do is hope”…”It’s my last...

Face [in the] Book

by Melinda | Jan 29, 2009 | Working Out Faith

Do you Facebook? I know many of you do. It’s quite the communication phenomenon. I stayed on the periphery for the longest time, opting out of adding another computer distraction to my day. But, little by little, the allure of connecting with old friends and...

Out on a Limb

by Melinda | Dec 18, 2008 | Working Out Faith

Over the past several months, I’ve been praying my way through a little booklet of the names of God, compiled by my friend Debbie Williams. This week’s name was “Branch”, as found in Jeremiah 23:5.The days are coming, “declares the LORD,...

Silent Night Living in a Jingle Bell World

by Melinda | Dec 5, 2008 | Christmas, Working Out Faith

It’s a noisy time of year, isn’t it? Certainly, there are a lot of beautiful sounds of the season in the carols, bells and laughter. However, once we layer on the multitude of seasonal movies and television programs, Santas ho-ho-hoing, the revelry of...

The Cleanse

by Melinda | Nov 30, 2008 | Health, Working Out Faith

For the last week or so, you could lump my blog in with those cell phone commercials that talk about the “dead zone.” Ain’t nothing much been happening around here…dead indeed! However, there is good reason for that. You might assume that I,...