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Beyond Emotional Eating

Beyond Emotional Eating: Building a Healthy Connection to Food   Do you ever feel like food has taken control of your life? You want to eat healthfully and only when you’re hungry, but you find yourself reaching for food when you’re happy, sad, angry, bored, or exhausted from a long day. You vow to stop – tomorrow. But that rarely happens. You wonder, “How can I be a Christian and still struggle so much in this area?” I’ve been there and I’m excited to share the five spiritual principles and practices that helped me break [...]

Beyond Emotional Eating2023-11-04T10:38:43-07:00

Madi’s Heavenly Healing

No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him, but God has revealed it to us by his spirit. 1Corinthians 2: 9-10 It just keeps getting better and better!  Oh, how I wish you were here so you could experience all that I am experiencing and see all that I'm seeing! So, today I asked Jesus why he didn't heal me and let me live longer. He put both his hands on my cheeks and looked deeply into my eyes and said, “My [...]

Madi’s Heavenly Healing2023-11-04T10:39:59-07:00

Loving Your Husband Like Your Dog Loves

Loving Your Husband Like Your Dog Loves Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 1Peter: 4-8   Plopping myself down in my overstuffed “quiet time chair” in my office, I was as quiet in my spirit as a fearful child riding a rollercoaster. Not at all. I was allowing my rollercoaster emotions to get the best of me as I vacillated from feeling tearfully sad, to resentful and downright angry. Why? Because after my husband had been out of town for most of the workweek, he was now spending [...]

Loving Your Husband Like Your Dog Loves2023-07-25T11:22:14-07:00

My First Day in Heaven

Our 21 year-old granddaughter, Madison (Madi) went to be with Jesus on Sunday She was born with a congenital heart defect and despite living a relatively active life, her health declined this past year and her heart failed as she awaited a heart transplant. Losing a loved one is always hard. It is even more tragic when that person is so young as we grieve all the possibilities and experiences they missed out on. This is because we mostly see with "Earthly" rather than "Heavenly" eyes.  I am no exception. But as I wrestled with [...]

My First Day in Heaven2023-11-04T10:40:12-07:00

Choose to Live a Dog’s Life

But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.    ~ 1Timothy 6: 6 -8    A Lesson in Contentment Success or failure. Financial windfall or bankruptcy. Dream house or simple apartment. There are so many circumstances that greatly influence our contentment level – if we let them. One of my former pastors once said that the bigger the gap between our expectations and reality, the bigger our misery [...]

Choose to Live a Dog’s Life2023-05-06T12:07:31-07:00

The Right Kind of Fear

The Right Kind of Fear The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverbs 9:10 Fear is a terrifying emotion. I know this from personal experience. In my late teens and early twenties, I experienced unrelenting panic attacks. I remember the first one like it was yesterday. I was a nurse’s aide at a nursing home and was attending to a frail elderly woman when suddenly, a weird sensation came over me. I felt this sense of darkness like a veil had fallen over my [...]

The Right Kind of Fear2023-04-25T12:39:39-07:00

A Love that Changes Everything

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.  John 15:12 The body has a phenomenal way of protecting itself when injured. It sends many biological resources to the area of damage to heal and protect it as quickly as possible. In the process, scar tissue is often formed. Those tissues initially meant to protect can often become a problem, inhibiting movement or other important functions. This can also happen to us emotionally. When people injure our hearts through betrayal or rejection, we build emotional scar tissue to protect us from future [...]

A Love that Changes Everything2023-04-11T09:03:40-07:00

Living a Spirit Driven Lifestyle

Living a Spirit Driven Lifestyle Overcoming the "Battle of the Flesh" Day by Day   For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.  Romans 7:15 Ever feel this way? Of course you have! Because you're human. This is the battle all people of faith face off each day in a multitude of ways. For many women, one of the most persistent battles is with food and lifestyle issues. In this video, Danna addresses many of [...]

Living a Spirit Driven Lifestyle2023-03-18T11:29:41-07:00

10 More Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was Younger

Wisdom musings in my 70th year  It was a joy and honor to be Jill Savage’s Guest on her NO MORE PERFECT PODCAST! We discussed ten things I wish I’d known (or better understood) earlier in my life.   Jill said that these 3 were her biggest takeaways. You can see my list of ten things below and listen to the full podcast HERE. 1) What if we loved more like dogs love? If you are a dog owner, you know there is nothing better than the love that dog has for you. They don’t hold a [...]

10 More Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was Younger2022-09-20T11:35:20-07:00

Things I Wish I’d Learned Earlier

GOD'S GLORY OR MY GRATIFICATION? Sometimes we think our motives and aspirations are godly endeavors. I am still learning to ask the question: "Does this decision, goal, or action bring glory to God?" And, "Is this the best use of my time, energies, and resources?" He gives us so much liberty to go about our lives. How many days, weeks, months, or years have I wasted getting out ahead of God and continually "waiting for Him to catch up and bless my activity"! Oh, the beautiful patience of our Heavenly Daddy! At 70 (being [...]

Things I Wish I’d Learned Earlier2022-07-15T07:28:01-07:00
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