Faith Blog

I love hiking. Just being in the woods is so serene. You hear so many things in the quietness. The main thing I hear is God. His voice just seems so much more clear when there’s not so many distractions to drown Him out.  As much as I love hiking, I especially love to...

“For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven” (NLT). This passage of scripture was penned by the wisest man outside of Jesus Christ to ever walk the earth. His name was King Solomon and God so graciously gifted him with wisdom. This, in my...

“He shrouded Himself in darkness, veiling his approach with dark rain clouds.” -Psalms 18:11 (NLT) It was in the early morning hours of a random Tuesday when my heart awoke my mind with reverberations of this strange phrase, He shrouds Himself in darkness. Unaware at...

I live in a small town and there are sidewalks everywhere. I like to walk most days of the week. It’s good exercise and helps me to decompress from worldly pressures. One evening as I was headed home, several birds flew over my head. You see birds all the time and...

I absolutely love the fall. Nothing is more beautiful to me than driving through the mountains and arriving at my hiking destination. The warm colors just drape around you like a cozy blanket!  I’m always glad my husband is driving because I just want to look. It’s...

Don’t you just love it when your house is clean? I mean EVERYTHING is done. Even the laundry! There’s a sense of satisfaction that wells up in you. Ahh. I can relax now. Mission accomplished! Before you started cleaning, things were in disarray. Dust hovered in the...

I was sitting one morning, drinking coffee and holding my cat. He began to lick me as he was breaking into his purring love song. I looked at him and realized that he doesn’t have a care in the world! He’s in my lap, safe and secure, and just content. I must admit,...

“Our mouths were filled with laughter and our tongues with joyful songs. Then the nations said, “The LORD has done spectacular things for them.” The LORD has done spectacular things for us. We are overjoyed.” Psalm 126:2   “A cheerful heart is good medicine.”...

How many times have we been walking through a department store and been drawn to the “free gift” at the cosmetic counter? You know - the cute little bag, the travel size mascara and of course the lipstick that never matches your skin tone. We’re politely told by the...

My mother has always said that as you get older, someone speeds up the clock. It does seem that way. Time drags when you’re little waiting for birthdays and Christmas. Then at some point you’re thinking, “Didn’t I just have another birthday and wasn’t Christmas last...