In a couple of weeks I’m headed to New York City, one of my favorite cities in the world. It’s the place where it all turned around for me, my spiritual crossroad, where I gave God complete control of my life after a devastating job loss and going my own way for seventeen years. And…
It’s been a crazy week. My beloved niece and nephew can to visit from Green Bay, Wisconsin. They had asked me not to take my Christmas decor down. They wanted to enjoy it. So, here it was, January 16th and I still had Christmas everywhere in my house. Well, those beautiful kids came to see…
If we are in a day-to-day relationship with God, He will speak into our lives. He’ll provide direction through dreams, visions, an audible voice, or an impression on our spirit, but we may want to use discernment with whom we share those revelations. In Genesis 37, Joseph, the great-grandson of Abraham, received a couple of…
I’m a little behind on this, but I’ve been watching the program, The Crown on Netflix and made it through season one in a week. I’ve always been fascinated with the royals; probably because of my English roots—41% according to Ancestry. During one of the episodes, I looked up our English family surname, “Carvel,” to see…
Just the other night I was talking with my husband, Madison, when I was explaining to him about my exhaustion and my need for respite. He stopped me and said, “Why do you keep using that word ‘respite’?” I said, “I’m not really sure.” So I took a moment and looked up the definition. It…