Living Real

Once upon a time, the nation of Israel didn't have a human king. They were governed by God through specific people He put in place called judges. Then the people of Israel looked around at the nations that lived around them and saw that they were governed by a king that they could look at [...]

You've seen people doing routines on the balance beam? You know, that piece of wood, about four feet in the air, four inches wide, that they will walk on, turn flips on and jump up then land on again? Sometimes they don't land on it, and fall off.  That's how I've felt this week. I've [...]

I've heard there's a law of unintended consequences that applies to economics, but for me, right now, I'm dealing with unintended consequences that have very little to do with economics. A friend who is also in the scoping field recently sent a client to me so I could handle some work that she (the scopist) was [...]

I can't begin to share exactly the depths of my insecurity. All my life I've wanted to feel like I fit in, like I was worth something. Like people wanted to be around me just because of me.  This morning in my GT (God-Time) I was working through today's lesson in the Beth Moore study [...]

As I write this, I am 48 years old. I am an adult. A mother. A grandmother. A wife. A businesswoman. An employee. And I am a wounded child.  I shared something really important with my mother the other day. Something I really wanted to see excitement in her face about. Something I really wanted [...]

I've been absent from my blog. My apologies to the millions who read it. (Yeah, right.)  For the past week or so, Jack, my husband, has been preparing to go to Haiti with a group of six other men for a mission adventure. My past days have been filled with making sure he had all [...]

I read a verse the other day that has relly nailed me. I can't let it go. Or maybe it won't let me go. Joshua 9:14 falls right in the midst of the story of the children of Israel's entry into the Promised Land. They've seen Jericho fall in an astounding way. They've dealt with the [...]