Tell Your Heart to Beat Again
Good morning making space for God friends! Some of you know that I have a book titled “Tell Your Heart to Beat Again.” The book is a call to Christians, to reposition yourself for God to use you for His glory. Jesus describes Christians corporately as a “city on a hill”; that we are called […]
Does Anyone Really Care?
Good morning Drawing Near friends! Abiding Space blog is meant to help create a place where we can come together and find ways to make space for God in our diverse lives and find ways to encourage one another in our journey with Christ. This morning’s topic is a question that I have been hearing […]
Where Do I Belong?
Friends, there is a universal question that we all ask deep within our soul: “Where do I belong?” There is a longing in each of us to belong. Perhaps you have never thought about it, but lingering behind every desire, every hope, and every wish for happiness, lies a need to belong. Recently I spoke […]
Inviting Jesus to the Marriage
A few years ago, I saw a billboard that said: Loved the wedding. Invite me to the marriage. As I drove by the billboard, I reflected on my 40+ years of marriage and recalled the marriage ceremony. I was married in the Greek Orthodox Church. The service is sacred, holy and lovely. At one point in the […]
Forgive Them Anyway
This week I drove by a sign in front of someone’s office. It caused me to stop and think. Are people often unreasonable irrational and self-centered? Perhaps so. So that brings up another question: Should we really forgive unreasonable irrational people? The world in which we live is very different than the world in which […]
Paying Attention
Sometimes I wonder if the entire world is suffering from attention deficit disorder. Many people certainly do and I am grateful that sometimes with a change in diet and perhaps medicine, we are able to help those that suffer with this. But there are a whole lot of people it seems that appear to have […]
An Invitation to Be Yourself
Good morning and welcome to Making Space for God Thursdays! The purpose of this blog is to help you declutter your life so that you can make room for God. So many of us are so intensely busy that to think of putting one more thing on our “to do” list freaks us out. My […]
Coloring Outside the Lines
When you were a child, did you prefer to color inside the lines or outside? As you colored your picture, did you take great pleasure in insuring that the sky was blue and the grass was green? To be honest, I found the lines very constricting and even in life have been a bit of […]
Commitment and Freedom
I have been thinking lately a lot about commitment. What does it mean to be fully committed? Why is commitment important? Why is it so difficult to be committed or stick with a commitment? Thought you all might like to explore some of these questions with me. I am intrigued by the two definitions I […]
That’s What Friends are For
Recently, I came across an old song written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Sager. It was first recorded in 1982 by Rod Stewart, but is better known for Dionne Warwicks version of the song titled That’s What Friends are For. One of the verses caught my attention: Keep smiling, keep shining knowing you can always count on […]