Go where you are celebrated and not tolerated was one of the very first leadership principles I learned in the early 90s just starting out in ministry. Have you ever heard that phrase? Probably have and if so, are you following it? To be honest, this phrase never struck a real emotional chord with me […]

Did you know that if you are born again, you DO have joy? Galatians 5 tells us the list of the fruit of the spirit. Notice there it says the “Fruit of the spirit is love…” Then it goes on to list the others. All the other fruit come out of love. I once studied […]

Are you afraid of what all is going on in our world these days? Are you shaken up by it all? Does it seem uncertain to take the next step? Honestly, it’s hard for a lot of us to even think about it. Some go to their war room and pray. I’m sure you have […]

~Happy Environments~   God made nature so extravagantly. Have you ever wondered why?   When I was a little girl, we had a pond behind our house. There was a picturesque meadow on the other side of that pond that filled with beautiful flowering weeds each summer. There were those tiny purple flowering weeds, dandelions […]

~Happy Talk~ Are you a happy talker? Check out these verses to sort of check up from the neck up. Jot down or copy and paste the ones you might need to focus on. What if these verses described the way we talk day in and day out? How much happier would we be? How […]

You’ve done it. I’ve done it. Put on that happy face when really, inside you were dying. They say “Don’t wear a mask.” But then they also say “Fake it til ya make it.” Which one is right? Well, of course there are times when we are at work and we have to just buck […]

A journal entry: Today was a pretty special day to me. Kevin and I drove over to Pensacola from Mobile to be with Pastors Mark and Janet Brazee for Mama J’s mother’s funeral.  I thought we were going to support our spiritual parents during this celebration of Ruth Courtney’s life. And we did. But I […]

Happy Christmas Yesterday at Harvest Church, we watched snippets of Home Alone & Wow! I never remembered how moving that flick was about dealing with loneliness until Kevin wrapped scripture around it like he did. Not sure which is worst?! …to be completely isolated or surrounded by a “wonderful support system” [or so all would […]