Song Of A Contrite Heart

You could have turned and walked away, left me standing here , alone. Instead I stand before You now, With my hands empty but heart wide open. I don’t know where to go from here But to lift my face and look to you. In love I stand before Your throne With all I have [...]

Finding the Beauty Among the Chaos

Over the past few years, I have become more and more discouraged by the things going on around me.   I only check the news to stay abreast of the major current events and most of those seem to be bad news.  If I’m not careful I find myself getting caught up in all of the [...]

My Thoughts Are Nothing Like Your Thoughts

The farmer looks at a plot of land, but doesn’t see the thorns, briers, bushes, and weeds that cover it. He sees the land for what it will do, bear fruit. He toils from morning till dawn, pulling up the roots of anything useless and what will impede the growth of what will soon be planted. Stubborn [...]

Finding Hope

In my own life, there have been many things happen that have caused me to pause and take a look at my faith.  James and I lost our first pregnancy on our 5 year anniversary and my family was told that my mamaw’s cancer hadn’t responded to the radiation and chemotherapy resulting in the unlikelihood [...]

Praise You In This Storm

           The last month has been a very difficult month for Callie and me.  As most of you know by now and as I wrote in my blog last month, we were expecting.  Unfortunately, the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.  I can’t tell you that I understand why it happened.  I can’t tell you that [...]

Great Expectations

How many of us place false expectations on others?  Sometimes the expectations are that someone will do good, sometimes the opposite.  Example:  Expecting new employees to catch on quickly and excel or expecting your new boyfriend or girlfriend to act like your last (or nothing like your last)?  Pastor Nick once said, and I hope [...]

Precious Are You

This was a journal entry a couple of years back. My divorce hadn’t been final long. My house on the market wasn’t selling and I was paying for it although I couldn’t live there. I drove an hour to work one way and gas was over $4.00 a gallon. I was dealing with an irate [...]

Contemplating Hopelessness…

  I’m sure you’ve heard many stories or watched movies about struggle, adversity, anguish, oppression or all of the above… where the only motivation to endure was hope for something better. Shawshank Redemption, Cast Away and Star Wars are all examples. For many people, the hope we have in God is very similar.  I say [...]

Great Expectations

I decided to fast with the church because, for one, I wanted to be on board with whatever the church was doing and I knew it would be good for me. Aside from that, I had no objective or hope for anything.   As a storm system came through on Monday morning, I woke up [...]

The Chase

As promised, here’s another Video submission to our blog. Let me introduce it by saying this is a very special video indeed. It’s called The Chase, and it was used as the primary illustration for the latest Canvas Women’s Retreat held October 29-31st… but that’s not the reason why this video is so special. It’s [...]