This past Sunday I spoke at my church. My pastor went on a mini-sabbatical for a few weeks. He asked me to speak. After I said yes. (Which is what you say to your pastor and then lean into Jesus for the know-how and strength to accomplish the goal.) I prayed to the Lord for…
Author: Starla
The dark of the heart and how to heal it
I love birds. I find them to be beautiful and fascinating. I like to watch them and they always catch my eye as they fly. One time, I saw a bald eagle soaring low to the ground. I had to pull over and just wonder and awe at its glory. I caught this glorious take…
Done But Not Done! 6 things we must be done with in order to have unity:
Look! Life is hard. Like you didn’t know that. But life is and can be holistic IF we learn to love one another. We live in a day when many people are opting out of the messiness of living life together, even in the church because it isn’t politically correct to speak your mind, share the…
When the world starts to shake
I know I haven’t written in a while… I have been in transition. A word that speaks change and transformation but often gets placed into the box labeled readjustment. This word transition has profound meaning, it means “a going across or over.” The websters dictionary defines transition as “passing from one state, stage, place to…
Convenience, Task, Compassion -3 types of people and “the what” their lives are speaking.
Have you ever had a sentence jump off the page at you? You know those moments when you trip over a word phrase or suddenly a clip of a book grips you? If you are prone to just move along and not pay attention to that split second longing that calls us to enter into…
The God who comes without warning!
I love how God speaks. He has a way of communicating that is able to touch directly my heart in such a way that it is undeniably Him and it is expressed in a way that I not only understand but also is wrapped in language that I get and it draws me into Him. He…