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Seeing God With Your Own Eyes

February 16, 2010 By 15 Comments

I like to think that I have an open mind.  I try not to have preconceived notions about things before I experience them for myself.

For example, I will try new foods to see how they taste before I decide if I like them or not.  I don’t make decisions based on their name or the way they look or because someone else tells me they don’t like them.  It used to make me crazy when my kids would just look at a food and say they didn’t like it.  Most of the food they used to say that about they now love – all because they took some time and a little risk and they tried them.

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Co-Laboring With God

December 17, 2009 By 41 Comments

I don’t know about you but I have found that there seems to be a certain time of the day that God works on me.  For me, this is generally about three in the morning.

As grateful as I am that God spends time with me or working on me, I find that His intervention at three in the morning leads to some very bleary-eyed days.

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Fear of Flying

November 25, 2009 By 43 Comments

As I write this I am on a plane flying home from being out of town.

While sitting here looking out the window, I started to remember how I used to be such a white-knuckled flier. Any change in a noise, little bump, turn, or anything else unexpected used to make my heart jump into my throat.  My heart would start to pound, I would start to sweat, and I would hold onto the arm rests so tightly you would have thought that I would have broken them off.

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A Special Thank You

November 14, 2009 By 4 Comments

I hope that you will allow me to take some of your time to say a special thank you to you – my readers.  And to tell you a little story about how almost anything that we want to accomplish in our lives is possible.  All we need to do is have a dream, put in a little hard work, and have faith that God will help us along the way to realizing our dreams.

For as long as I can remember I have had the desire to write.  I was a good writer but I just didn’t know what to write about.  I studied other authors.  I tried to figure out how they write and what they wrote about.  Do I write fiction?  Do I try to write a novel?  Suspense?  I had great ideas but I just didn’t know how to put them all together to make them interesting.  I kept feeling like I was at a roadblock – like my car was all gassed up but I had no where to go.

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Raising a Story

November 3, 2009 By 4 Comments

Sometimes, as a writer, I get stuck.  And right now I think I’m stuck…

I get ideas, I work on them, come up with a story, and then I read it and don’t feel like it’s ready to let go.  So I put the story on a shelf hoping that some day I will come back to it, get inspired, fix it, finish it, and release it – once I get the words right.

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