Trading My Sorrows …….. Grace Restored

Eternal Perspective

  • Just sit with God for a while.

    Sometimes you need a safe place. Continue reading

  • Just see the manifestation of God’s holiness.

    Open the eyes of my heart Lord.   Sometimes you just have to stop, be grateful, understand God is good no matter what happens and see his glory. The glory of God is the outward manifestation of his holiness. Bottom… Continue reading

  • Law of Subtraction.

    (Mom went to be with the LORD before I made it home again Nov 18th, 2010. Her last words to me were that she loved me over and over. I miss her dearly, her legacy to me was to love… Continue reading

  • Blow out on I-30 GOD never promised a Flat LIFE.

    We had just left a beautiful scenic harbor heading back to my apartment. I had friends with me in a 2 car caravan and suddenly the vibration in my car became severe and we all heard a loud pop. My… Continue reading

  • I want to thank you LORD for being patient with me….

    I was listening to this song Make My Life a Prayer to You today. God’s love is truly amazing. All that he has done to secure our salvation and to also provide a way to know him intimately is truly… Continue reading

  • I don’t know what to think. I just know what to do.

    You know some mysterious things have happened in the last couple of years to me. Some of them defy rational explanation. You can’t make this stuff up. You don’t know what to think or where it’s coming from but this… Continue reading

  • Sweet Time ~ Living Like You Were Dying ~ because Heaven is for real!

    Living Like You Were Dying has become a mantra for me in a way. I think God supports this when he says we are a vapor and vanish. Wow! I turned 50 this past year. It was a year of… Continue reading

  • The Living Years

    There’s a song by Mike and the Mechanics called The Living Years It talks about parental damage and wasted time. I know this first hand and even though Dad’s been gone since 1987 I still can have something rattle my… Continue reading

  • I own it!

    God has allowed me a front row to his mercy and grace. I just wanted to briefly say here I don’t have all the answers but I know who does. I am so in awe of this Father who loves… Continue reading

  • When God ran to me

    Reposted from 2008 in honor of all God has called son who have fallen in this world but still are loved by a Father whose love is perfect. A Father who ran down that long road to meet them and… Continue reading

  • Turn on a Dime

    I am amazed how fluid life can be. You can hope and dream but in all reality we have to know that dreams are dreams. Our feet have to land on the ground and sometimes accept where we really are.… Continue reading

  • Create in me a clean heart, My sin.

    Create In Me a Clean Heart by Keith Green click here to listen. I love the passage of Scripture that this song is based on. Psalms 51 I think verse 4 stands out to me. As I write and try… Continue reading

  • Why can’t we be rescued? When the sacred is torn from our lives.

    Click here to listen Natalie Grant sings the song Held about a true story of a woman losing her 2 month old infant. We have all been there where we have cried out to God at those times when we… Continue reading

  • Shipwrecked- Can this be a good thing?

     Καὶ ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκομεν ὅτι ἐγνώκαμεν αὐτὸν ἐὰν τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ τηρῶμεν. I Repost from March 2010 John 2:3 (scroll your mouse over the words for their meaning) What do you really know? My journey recently took a rabbit trail that… Continue reading

  • Totally Disturbed! TY LORD

    When I was a teacher I loved studying and teaching on the early pioneers in science, many of whom were strong in the faith. Sir Frances Drake wrote this poem that describes the passion I have for the LORD and… Continue reading

  • Changing Scars to Beauty Marks

    I heard Anne Graham Lotz talk about God changing our scars to beauty marks. LORD knows I had some scars. I was talking to someone after a lecture I attended and after our conversation I drove home with alot of… Continue reading

  • Life in the fast lane with a GOD who is always on time.

    Living in the fast lane with a GOD who is always on time We live in an age where everything is instant. The stress of an instant life spills over onto our relationship with GOD. Christianity is not something you… Continue reading

  • Whatever it Takes

    I used to sing a song called Whatever It Takes. I remember a man in my church saying to becareful because God might just do whatever it takes. Within a few years I was divorced facing life alone after 20… Continue reading

  • Emerge a changed Woman.

    My past is riddled with so many things, some drama, mistakes, pain, violence, sadness, divorce, marriage and death. I can’t begin to write all that I could say about it.  I guess I could fill this blog with it all… Continue reading