Hello Monday #85

New App I am using: Over the last several months I have been focusing on the discipline of prayer. I’ve printed 30 calendars with prayer points. This month I am trying out this one. It plays music in the background as you read. It has a daily verse, quotes in the same theme, and small…

Hello Monday #84

Love what is happening in the Forrest Frank arena: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2009083946589586 Favorite Substack this past week: 💭 What do you do with sadness?For me, I’ve often ignored it, distracted from it, or covered it up. But in prayer, God began to show me why. He reminded me that prayer isn’t about avoiding pain—it’s about bringing it…

Hello Monday #83

Yesterday dear daughter turned 27. She is now the mother of 4. Where did the time go? I still remember her princess dressing 4-year-old days, and her 12-year-old figuring out my own style ways, and her 17-year-old helping self, her young “I just got married” move to a tiny home, and I’m a mom, now…

Hello Monday #82

FAVORITE POST FROM THIS PAST WEEK: I was reading a blog and came across this statement: As believers, do we know how the law changed when the arrival of the New Covenant rendered the Old Covenant “obsolete”? Obsolete: no longer practiced or used, out of date, gone out of use, of a discarded type Where…

Hello Monday #81

Song by Jordan Smith You may remember Jordan singing on The Voice – he grew up singing in his church, since The Voice he has married his long-term girlfriend, now wife Kristen and making music! Verse map: I like this clip: This is a great song for someone getting baptized. Remembering: 5 years ago, yesterday,…

Hello Monday #80

A powerful prayer that I came across: Something I think I might start doing: My kind of style of verse mapping and prayer. I love words and defining them. And this year I have been more intentional in prayer. I think I like it. This is a good breakdown of how people can throw off…