Pressing In

                                                                            It wasn't that long ago that I would just wallow in frustration with myself for falling short on things that I really felt I ought to do better at or have down by now. I would carry such guilt and shame over these things and not understand why I was still praying for freedom from the same things I was praying about for the last 5 or even 10 years! It was so darn frustrating to me. The example that stands out to me the most and the freshest was my struggle with anger. I had never  considered myself to be an angry person. In fact, I really considered myself to be pretty fun-loving and selfless.  Well, humility and reality hit me square in the face, as I started to have children and realized that maybe I...

                  I have a message to tell. Today it is clear and feels urgent. Almost as if I could burst, it needs to come out so bad! The Lord is stirring something within me. I want nothing more today than to tell someone about Jesus. In fact, I want to tell a lot of people about Him.  A message of Hope and Love and renewal.  A message of the crazy pursuit of Him to us. I feel that my feet are at this moment being equipped and fitted to carry this gospel message with love and authority. I am excited because this reminds me of a prayer that two different people in two different towns, 5 years apart both prayed over my feet. The same prayer! In both instances they were praying with me, when they told me(one of them a bit sheepishly) that the Lord was urging them to pray over my feet.  So they knelt down and put their hands on my feet and prayed very similar prayers and they both prayed the scripture that says, "How...

        Yesterday, I took my three younger kids to the park after school to enjoy the  beautiful fall weather before the rain moves in.  It was a bit chilly, and as I tightened my jacket  around me and zipped it up as high as I could, I sat down with the intention of  pulling a book out of my bag and enjoying the chance to dig into it. As I reached over to flip my bag open, something stopped me.  For some reason the usually coveted time to read,  felt undesirable now that I had it,  in comparison to the opportunity that unfolded  right in front of me. There was something bigger that enticed my attention.       It is a fairly new phase of life for me to be in that I can actually read now.  I really didn't  get much reading in while I was in the middle of raising and pouring into my little kids. So the  fact that I have read about 4-5 books in the last 6 months, may not seem like a lot ...

                                             You've heard of her right?   The woman who was thirsty for something, but didn't know what?  Yeah, her.  That's me. But, I have found what I did not know. I have tasted what I had only hoped  existed.  And now that I know, now that I have tasted- I never want to live my life as if I don't and haven't. I also, like the woman at the well want to share this Living Water I have with others.  I also want to hear  many people say to me, "We no longer believe just because of what you have said; now we have heard for  ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."  John 4:42   For those of you who may not be as familiar with this story, please, let me share it...  The setting is at a well in Sychar, a town in Samaria.  Sama...