And they kept silent and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen. Luke 9:36b I felt the presence of my mom’s spirit even after she was no longer in her body. I saw an angel. I heard a voice tell me to stop over at my friend’s home. I walked into the room and could smell my mother’s perfume even though no one else had been there and I was alone. Sometimes the above statements were preceded by “I have never told anyone before” and sometimes also “I am afraid

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” Luke 6:31 When she showed up with color swatches and fabric samples I knew that she was loving me the way she would want to be loved. I didn’t really know her much at all, my first husband was her pastor. She had shown up to decorate my children’s rooms after the death of their father. Something to cheer them up and help them feel better about staying in the home where their dad had a stroke. It was a kind, generous and lov

“When the love of power is overcome by the power of love, the wold will know peace”- attributed to Jimi Hendrix "God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house,” -I John 4:17 The Message Valentine’s Day. It’s all about the love. A year ago Ash Wednesday was on Valentine’s Day and we were starting our Lenten journey. This year during Lent we will be offering a book study on Jacquel

Psalm 46:10 New International Version (NIV) 10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” #bloggingtips #WixBlog

To swim in the deep end was always a big deal when I was a child. To swim where your feet couldn’t touch the bottom of the pool required that you not swim alone. But even more so we loved to swim in the ocean- way far out beyond where the waves would break, way deeper than our feet could touch. We weren’t allowed to go out there alone and we couldn’t go that deep without a grownup. “Let’s go out deep!” We would call to my dad asking him to take us to the deep water. Reading L