The Blog
to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
The Blog
to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
Hope For The Discouraged
It was one of those days. By midday, I recognized I was stepping foot onto a path I didn't belong. A path of discouragement. I'm not sure if it was because of the reality of what was happening around me, or how my thoughts were magnifying it all into monster-sized...
We’re Called To Help These Dear Ones
I miss my homeless friends. That's not something you read every day, is it? For five years, my days were filled with incredible and special moments with those on the streets. With the poor, the needy, the hurting. Those who were addicted, who were "outcasts" to most,...
Five Minute Friday – Open
Five Minute Friday. It's a party of words, of friends, of encouragement. Where a bunch of us free-write for five minutes on the same one-word prompt, and we gather together at Kate Motaung's place to share, bless and build each other up. It's beautiful. Won't you join...
Hope For the Stubborn
Some call it stubborn. I like to call it independent. There is a difference. stubborn: unreasonably obstinate, obstinately unmoving; difficult to manage or suppress independent: not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or...
When Silence Is The Best Thing
I became extra-fond of Moses this week. God used Moses' example in Numbers 12 to unexpectedly encourage this heart of mine. The chapter begins with Miriam and Aaron, Moses' sister and brother, talking against Moses and verbally attacking him. This account wasn't new...
The Best Day To Start Over
Do you ever wish you could start over? Have a "do-over" of sorts? Maybe yesterday didn't go so well. Or, maybe you've walked through a string of days like that. Maybe you thought this year would be different, but by the looks of it, this year isn't going to be unlike...
