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Batty Thoughts
What can bats teach us about our thoughts? I know of at least three things, but first I must tell you a true story. Several years ago, my brother and I spoke at the Missouri Department of Mental Health’s Spring Training Conference at the Lake of the Ozarks. Because we...
What Kind of Birthday Is Happy?
We all know what a birthday is. It is the celebration of the day you were born. This year, if I happened to eat cake which I gave up about 15 years ago, there would be 72 candles on my cake poised to burn the house down! However, I don’t eat cake any more. There was a...
Why I Do What I Do
I was at physical therapy, where I go to learn how to walk again after knee replacement surgery. I was getting to know my new therapist. I’ll call her Haley. I asked about why she went into physical therapy and if she enjoyed it. Then, she turned the tables and asked...
The Boy Jesus and His Dad
I’ve thought a lot about this question: When did Jesus figure out who He is and who told Him? Was it a surprise when He found out He was the Son of Father God? When He was in Heaven He knew who He was, but when He came to earth he was a human baby. He came right out...
Bitten By the Fiction Bug
I wanted to read like my mother did. She read constantly. It was her one solace in a sea of troubles that seemed to plague her worse than others. So every week, we’d go to the library, and Mom would choose stacks of books to read. I begged her to let me check out...
Can A Book Change Your Life?
The answer is, “Of course it can.” I have heard from numerous people who have read my memoir, Sweet Grace: How I Lost 250 Pounds, and their lives have been radically changed just by reading that book I wrote in 2013. Rebuilding Jayne is available NOW on Amazon. I have...
Lose Big in 2024
For years, I had a problem with weight. God told me what to do, but I didn’t do it. Then, I came to the end of my rope and was afraid my time here on Earth was approaching an end. Desperation will cause us to do some amazing things. I finally surrendered to God. When...
Are You Listening, God?
Is God listening to us when He doesn’t answer our prayers like we want? Many times we talk to God by what we are calling prayer. However, here’s what we do. We tell God what we want Him to do. When it doesn’t happen like we want it to happen, we wonder if He is really...
Fear and Trust
How do we know if we really trust Jesus or not? He’s the member of the Trinity who is most like us because He knows what it’s like to live as a human. If we have a trust issue with Jesus, it will affect our relationship with those we love. Several years ago, I felt...
Forty-six and Counting
It’s Easter Sunday morning. I am lying curled up next to my husband, his arm around me. These are the type of mornings I ache to be writing. Writing is my drug, as they say. These days, though, lying next to my husband is better than any drug. Perhaps he is my drug of...