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I Like Church Lady Clothes

I didn't have any looks, I didn't have any talent, and it was easy for me to say to the Lord, "I don't have anything." If you only knew where I came from ... this leetle-bitty town with no more than twelve hundred people in it. So ... anything I am today, He is the one who has done it. Kathryn Kuhlman I’m a sucker for feminine blouses.   My favorite one is a white lightweight Polyester V-neck style with ruffles down the center and neck.   The sleeves are long and then a big ruffle surrounds the wrists.   Ladies will know it as the “Romantic” style.   I wore this top with a royal blue skirt to church this morning.   Who knew the fun that would be in store for me. My greeting partner met me at the door of the sanctuary and right away razzed me.   “You wore your Kathryn Kuhlman blouse today!”   I laughed.   Remember Kathryn?   She was the gifted TV Evangelist who prayed for people to be miraculously healed.   I use to watch her with my Mom when

A Word for the Coming Year

Fall is here!   This season seems to be a big hit with many blogger friends.   In the east, the leaves are beginning to turn and I’m enjoying the photos many are posting of their fall decorations.   We, here in the southwest, are growing pumpkins.   We have one that is a perfect round shape, still green but getting big. Aside from the relief of hot Arizona weather, I like fall because my favorite Jewish Roots teachers, Perry Stone and Larry Huch, demonstrate how the fall Jewish holidays compliment Christianity.   My favorite teaching is about Rosh Hashanah , the Jewish New Year.   Although it’s not the New Year on the calendar, I always take the challenge and get away with the Lord, waiting to see what He’ll say to me about the coming year.   Last year the word was “favor” and I expected favor and prayed it for others.   My prayer journal is full of wonderful references to it.   I’m thankful for all the favor I have witnessed. This coming year the word is “rest.”

Flying Higher

As a little girl, I would get underfoot and my busy mom would say something weird like “Go fly a kite.”   Now I see how she was speaking prophetically over me, well kind of.   This past week I stumbled over Winston Churchill’s famous quote:   Kites rise highest against the wind not with it. The life lesson of this, to me anyway, speaks of opposition.   What opposing winds in my life have caused me to excel higher?   There have been so many circumstances that God has used to shape me.   One in particular is my marriage to a partner with ADHD.     I have had to learn patience, to compromise, to pick my battles, and to ask God daily for the strength to walk in the power and fruit of His Holy Spirit and not swing my rolling pin as a weapon of mass destruction when I get angry.    I’ve learned never to compare my marriage to others or be jealous of girlfriends whose husbands bring them surprise gifts of delicate pastries or dozens of roses.   Oh, I get surprises too like the gi