8/2010

When I was little, I would gaze at the night sky. Shooting stars, the Milky Way, constellations - we could see it all from our backyard.

I remember thinking how small I was and how expansive everything else seemed to be. The world, and just how big it was, was lost on the 8^th grader with braces and glasses and a pint-size view of life.

And now that I'm an adult (for the most part), the world still seems big. Vast. Enormous. Which makes the impact Joni and Friends^® is having around the globe so truly amazing!

Joni was ...

Who calls you "their hero"?
Compassion International is giving people the chance to be somebody's hero.  And not just any somebody -- a child in poverty.  These children don't require their hero to wear a cape, fly or own a white horse.  All they need is someone who cares and who will show them that God cares. 

Global church initiative
Churches around the world will be focusing on the least of these on Sunday, September 26 for a special Global Compassion Sunday. Please join us in prayer for many heroes to step up and choose to rescue children from ...

This weekend it was a deep joy and privilege to gather in a Pasadena church fellowship hall and mark an historic wedding anniversary.

In fact, the images of the happy young couple still linger in my mind--along with Frank Sinatra and Celine Dion's melodic rendering that played as the slide show took us through the years that have passed so quickly:

So, if you'll let me love you, it's for sure I'm gonna love you ... all the way ... all the way.

When Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen wrote the lyrics "who knows where the road ...

It's official.  Fall is back.   As the kids and I settle into a new school year, homework and soccer practices, it's also a new season in my Sunday School Class.  Today we started our new Bible lesson-Anne Graham Lotz's Into the Word.

It couldn't have come at a better time for our "His Alone" Sunday School Class whose members are single, divorced or married to a non-church attendee.  Most of us could use the reminder of His love and His hope for our lives-for many in His Alone, a reminder from His Word is what ...

We're just realizing we're more broken then we ever even imagined ... it's not about how we're going to get this all patched up ... it's how we're going to trust God to be enough.  Is His grace really sufficient as He says and can we really rest in that, trust in that, anchor to that? ... Our hope is anchored in the promise of God ... we know His grace is enough.  That's why were sitting here with tears in our eyes ... we're still showing up for this journey."  --Steven Curtis Chapman

Most of us ...

We have various Bibles in our home ... NKJ, NIV, NASB and even one in contemporary language.  My favorite though is a study Bible that was given to me by the Ambassador team in July 1996, when I left to join my husband in Okinawa where he was serving in the Marine Corps.  Being a fairly new Christian at the time, married only a year, with a 12 year old son ... that Bible became my stronghold during some very challenging days.  But through the years it has also become instruction, nourishment, and encouragement in my life and walk with Christ. 

So ...