How to Develop Self-Care

Everywhere I look this month I see reminders of the upcoming holiday: bouquets of red, pink or yellow roses, heart shaped boxes of chocolate or other sweet confections, expensive greeting cards declaring love to a perfect valentine. While I’m not necessarily cynical...

How Will You Celebrate Easter?

We spend so much time, energy and stress celebrating Christmas when the major Christian holiday is Easter. True, at Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus and what a momentous event that was! But we also max out our credit cards, deal with the dynamics of family...

How to Stay in Hope with God

Recently I was filled with awe at the tenderness and love God has shown to us, his children. When my husband accidentally hit our granddaughter with his car, he was devastated. The “what if’s” plagued his mind, both waking and sleeping. After a few days he said to me,...

Easter vs Christmas Reflections

We spend so much time, energy and stress celebrating Christmas when the major Christian holiday is Easter. True, at Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus and what a momentous event that was! But we also max out our credit cards, deal with the dynamics of family...

5 Tips from the Samaritan Woman

We don’t know her name, other than “The Woman at the Well” or “The Samaritan Woman.” But God cared about her and sent Jesus to dialog with her. Her story is written in John 4:3-34 which includes these 5 tips for us. 1. Jesus wants to spend Time with Us. He went out of...