Daring to Dream

In preparation for Bridging the Gap’s upcoming Single Moms Retreat, I recently attended a training session on life coaching techniques.  One of the exercises we completed that morning was sitting down with another person we didn’t know and spending four uninterrupted...

Get Your Head In the Game

Whether we realize it or not, we are fighting a battle every single day. In the heavenlies, a battle rages for our souls and for the souls of those around us. Jesus won the rights to victory when he defeated death and hell on the cross and through his resurrection....

Time to Ponder

And Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart (Luke 2:19). Are you a ponder-er: one who reflects and reviews important things? This season reminds me to do a little bit more of that. Christmas has come and gone once again, and now we have to...

Worship In The Dark

I love to sing. There are days when no one can shut me up! Many mornings, I awaken with a song in my head, and that song becomes my hum all day long. I sing when I’m happy and when I’m sad. I’ve sung for countless weddings and funerals, and I help with leading worship...

Wounded By The Exchange

It was one of those days. According to her, I couldn’t do anything right. Without having any actual authority over me or my job, she still felt it necessary to tell me what I should and shouldn’t do, where I should and shouldn’t go, and what I should and shouldn’t...

What’s It Worth To You?

If you don’t live in an area where there is a choice of fabulous coffee establishments, you may not understand my dilemma. Do I go for down-home and delicious or upscale, aristocratic, and scrumptious? Can you guess which is which? It seems kind of silly, really, that...