Advent…Where are you?

They hid from the Lord God among the trees Gen. 3:8 Where am I ?? Sometimes I feel lost … sometimes I feel so comfortable I am worried about myself. Sometimes I feel like I am spinning circles and then I find HIM in the middle of my mess and I am right where I…

Advent…..A love story

So God created human beings in His own image Gen. 1:27 God created this great vast world and little ol’ me The world with seeming greatness I with seeming insignificance …well at least from time to time from my perspective. and yet each line and turn He drew with intention. Advent … to see the…

Advent…hope…grace finding

I started Ann Voskamp’s book today that I got from Tina for my birthday. THE GREATEST GIFT Advent : a coming into place, view, or being; arrival: the advent of the holiday season. the coming of Christ into the world. the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas, observed in commemoration of the coming of Christ…

reframing mental frames & words

I am sure we have all been in situations where we feel that we can not be who we are. We believe and live out statements like : I am not safe being me I have to be careful with showing who I am or people will be upset I am afraid to show myself…

the quiet

Its been a while sitting here in this quiet house waiting for the phone to ring, the text to whistle, the messenger to bling but it hasn’t and so I wait in this quiet place not sure if I like it or not but it is how it is and I haven’t set out to…

5 things – introverted

1. Listening: I want to be able hear another person clearly, so that I am sure I have heard it the way they are meaning and not the way I think I am hearing it. I have auto reactions in my mind when I hear something that is surprising to me or that I don’t…