"Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off“
Max Lucado
Grace is more than undeserved favor from God. It is His power at work in us while we are still broken. Grace doesn’t call us to clean up because we are so messy. Grace is God’s way of cleaning up the messes and mistakes as we open ourselves to His divine influence on our hearts!
2025-09-05 16:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning!
This was a day I filmed a video that won’t post for some time but the message had been haunting me for some time. Haunting might be too spooky of a word but it was pressing on me, for sure.
Then, I was considering what I wanted to say to you today and I “happened” to read an email from a friend who has a daughter very similar in personality to me. Wanting to capture the fullness of each and every day. Maximize. Don’t waste time. Progress. More perfection. Mor...
2025-09-01 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
"God, when I cross the truth, give me the awareness to receive it. The consciousness to recognize it. The presence to personalize it. The patience to preserve it. And the courage to live it".
Matthew McConaughey
2025-08-28 22:24:12 +0000 UTC View Post
....from the perspective of a feminine woman!
2025-08-28 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
To rest in God's power when your own weaknesses seem to be screaming at you? That's grace! To be confident in who God is for you when you feel overwhelmed by odds against you? That's peace! To stand alone against massive intimidation? That's trust! To know beyond any shadow of a doubt that God is bigger, and therefore you cannot lose? That's the faith that moves mountains!
Good morning!
Sometimes when so much seems to be going a bit crazy in the world, something plops down into my lap that redirects me.
So it is with a little gem of a book that I found and started rereading. My friend Anita wrote it about the girls in India that truly helped inspire the start of On Fire Fit. If you have been in my circle for a while (my Lifers!) then you are familiar with Pravaham, a school for poor young women in India who are given life skills and a trade as nurse...
2025-08-25 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Crisis doesn't define you—it reveals what God has already prepared for you.
Your upstairs perspective sees what downstairs circumstances cannot: inheritance positioned right next to opposition, breakthrough disguised as breakdown, God's provision already in place before the challenge even appeared.
You're not trying to survive this crisis—you're discovering what God wants to be FOR you in it. He's already positioned Himself to be whatever is missing, and His partnership with y...
2025-08-22 22:53:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Our confidence that God will eventually do something good for us, causes joy – now. The more we expect, the greater our happiness becomes.
Merlin Carothers
2025-08-20 20:25:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning!
Sometimes all there is to do is wait.
Right outside of my mom’s (Hi! It’s Thalia writing today☺️) window in her prayer room, there has been this bird couple building a nest. We have been watching them making their journey with just a small straw and have seen the accumulation of their work. How often is that us? Working hard moment after moment, but it feels like no one can see it. Over the past week, the eggs in the nest finally...
2025-08-18 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Luigi Pirandello
2025-08-14 18:33:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning,
As you probably know, I don’t believe in coincidences. Just when I find myself in a place where my emotions have taken over in a situation, by the grace of God I will often receive a message from someone or something that knocks me back into spiritual reality.
It seems that lately I have noticed more than the usual spiritual attacks on people I know. Why do I call them spiritual attacks? Well, for a number of reasons. Some of the things that people are hit wi...
2025-08-11 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Author Heidi Priebe on loving someone as they change:
"To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don't recognize inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into.
We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out; to become speedily found when they are lost.
But i...
2025-08-07 20:38:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning!
Your mind is ruining everything. Ok, maybe I’m being dramatic but maybe I got your attention. 🙂
I have a health group and I was thinking about how so many of us ruin our health via our mindset. The battle truly is in the mind. This applies to mental health, physical health, and everything inbetween. We know it but what do we do about it.
Long conversations with Pastor Jim usually lead to the concept of metanoia: the change of how we look at something inste...
2025-08-04 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
My prayer for you
That in every facet of your life, you will see the goodness, the faithfulness, the explosive power of the Almighty God. And you would know how loved you are 💕
2025-07-30 23:27:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning!
How much are you aligned with God and His plan for your life? Sometimes our excuse might be that we don’t know what His plan is! However, I don’t mean a step by step career path. When you look at your physical, spiritual, mental, emotional, relational aspects of life, are you bearing fruit?
We have a busy, productive cultural thrust most of the time. So much of what is pushed by the world is the need for productivity. However, that in and of itself could be pushi...
2025-07-28 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
It was in my Bible reading during my quiet time today, Then in the daily devotion, And then in the message at Church today, So I’m sharing it with you 🎉
““Ask, and the gift is yours. Seek, and you’ll discover. Knock, and the door will be opened for you. For every persistent one will get what he asks for. Every persistent seeker will discover what he longs for. And everyone who knocks persistently will one day find an open door.”
Matthew 7:7-8...
2025-07-27 16:47:42 +0000 UTC View Post
“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” —Mister Rogers
Reference: https://www.shopify.com/blog/motivational-quotes
2025-07-24 19:07:31 +0000 UTC View Post
