That Familiar Fragrance

Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me…She did what she could…” –Mark 14:6, 8a Do you ever notice perfume in the air? The wafting […]

Nothing Compares to You

“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” Psalms 139: 4 NIV What a glorious thing to know. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. […]

To Give All of Myself

Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.         […]

Resilience

Resilience Angels Three:  The Karen Perry Story by Landon J. Napolean What’s the worst day of your life?  Was it a terrible tragedy, a frightening diagnosis, an unexpected job loss, a devastating physical or emotional […]

God’s Love Endures!

With a smooth cup of coffee and Psalms 136 on my mind I sat down to write my first women’s blog for 2016. I began to reflect on 2015 and the events of this past […]

Real Women. Real Lives. Real God.

Reality! One of the things which first attracted me to the Vineyard movement was the fact that people seemed “real.” They seemed authentic and not phony.  If you were having a bad day, you didn’t […]

Your One and Only Life

You’ve only got one…life that is. “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you:  Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work life—and place it before God as an offering.  Embracing what […]

Mary

Mary      I’ve always felt a special affinity for Mary.  Yes, we all embrace and honor her as the mother of Jesus—but I always felt like I could relate to her, personally.  Perhaps it’s because […]