I rock her in my arms, my little baby girl,

I look at that soft face, her smiley eyes…

She laughs in my arms, and in my heart I ask:

Where will we be five years from now?

Will we have security;

Will we be able to endure?

I hear my little five year old boy,

Reading words from a book on his own,

His voice like a melody of waterfalls…

Just five years ago I was holding him newborn.

He rested peacefully on my chest,

I could embrace him warmly with only on...

Booboos on my Knees

(Reflections on my Journey of Healing and Deliverance)

When I was 10 years old, after a well-invested PE class, I experienced the normal urgency for drinking water.  We had to walk a bit from the parking lot back to the main building.  There was the long, wide stairs to the second floor where our classroom and the water fountain were.  I decided to run, and in my haste, fell down and badly skinned my left knee.  I didn’t feel much pain at first, bu...

A while ago I noticed how worship songs would sound in my mind over and over again...  The words of these songs would
bring peace to my heart, hope and many times a neccesary reminder of God's Word when life seemed tough.
At Southern Hills Baptist Church, our worship Pastor Jesse wrote a song that speaks of God's awesome names, to me it especially speaks of God's love.  This song stayed in my mind this week, it was my company when things looked scary since my husband Pat needed to go to the hos...