The second most often asked question I hear about focus is how do I focus? For a girl with untreated Attention-Deficit Disorder for most of my life, focus is something that I have learned to do fairly well over the years. When I allowed myself to be treated, it just honed even more. There are... Continue Reading →
Why? It is one of the most important questions that we can ask ourselves. So often we get stuck on the "Who?" and the "How?" that we never get to focus on the "Why?". Why we do something is so important; whether we are looking back or looking forward, our motive for action needs to... Continue Reading →
Another thing that keeps me from truly focusing on the things that I know I am called by God to do is what I believe. What I believe can be more powerful that what others believe about me. What I believe can be more powerful than what God says about me because I can not... Continue Reading →
Another reason that I have found it hard to focus is that I am afraid. It is easy for me to look productive. I am a task oriented person. I find accomplishment in finishing things, and there are a number of things that I am good at. However, just because I can do something,... Continue Reading →
Much of my life I have felt called to share my story. I have in a sense shared most of it at some point or another, but I have felt like I needed to write it out, for at least the better part of the last six years. My life has been a broken path,... Continue Reading →
Join me for the next thirty-one days as I join other bloggers around the world for the #Write31Days challenge of October 2018. This is my fifth year to participate in the challenge, and honestly one I was not planning to do. In 2014, I wrote on 31 days of Living In 2015, I wrote on... Continue Reading →
I hadn't gotten past the introduction in the current Audible book I'm listening to "Vertical Church" by James McDonald when I had the thought "Too often we allow horizontal relationships with others to be a substitute for the vertical relationship with God." Immediately one might think of spouse or children in this role, but my... Continue Reading →
We were sitting outside enjoying a relaxing evening with our daughters and grandchildren when we got the news. Maybe it was to be expected, but it really took us by surprise, to the point I asked my husband if he was messing with me. I had stepped inside while he was on the phone, when... Continue Reading →
I am a native of my community. I was born and raised in the same local place. Then so moved away and spent a little more than a decade out of state before finding my way back home. That also describes my relationship with God and church. I grew up in church, from the time... Continue Reading →
Sometimes the most beautiful scenes are in the rearview mirror looking back on our lives. We have been driving most of the evening, leaving San Francisco and heading south towards Pismo Beach. We had hoped to reach the beach by sunset, but alas it was not meant to be today. Instead as we rounded the... Continue Reading →
Restoring Voice 