The Burden is not Yours to Carry
As I took my walk in the park a couple days after the heavy snow we got in New York, I observed a tree on the ground. On first sight, I thought: ‘wow, this tree is so healthy, how did it break down so badly?’ It was a huge tree, filled with pine needles. As […]
Sometimes What the Lord Asks of Us is Almost Impossible
This week as I was about to begin my devotion, I got distracted and opened Facebook. I seem to be a sucker for a story, even if I don’t know the person, so I got caught up reading a story that popped up on my timeline. Someone had been driving, and got side swiped […]
Rest to Open
I’ve recently started using my iPad more consistently for my devotional time (hello bigger screen)… As I went to unlock it, there were instructions ‘Rest to Open’. I had to chuckle at God’s sense of humor. These were instructions I had been given since the end of last year – at least the rest part. […]
Take Time to Notice
As part of my exercise plan, I take walks in my favorite neighborhood park. This is a time for me to breathe, reset, pray and listen, with the added bonus of letting my legs move without much thought from me. I’m fiercely protective of this time. Over the years, I’ve fine tuned it to […]
A Heart of Gratitude
As I sit here contemplating how quickly the year has gone by, and how fast we are approaching Thanksgiving Day this week, I have to take a moment to pause and reflect. My overall sense of the year is feeling a deep gratitude. So many things have taken place. Some good. Some not so good. […]
Under Construction
This year, it feels like my home has seen more construction than in the previous nine years combined. The irony is, as a planner, these are things that I would have planned and thought through, but as the opportunities presented themselves, I jumped on them – and, view them as God knowing the desires of […]
Can I Be Honest?
When I first heard this song on the radio, I turned it up, as I sat wide eyed, nodding in full agreement. This singer, had captured all the words I would have said, if I knew how to articulate them. For some reason, the name of the song and singer did not update on the […]
Is it Fake?
A few months ago, I wrote another blog post asking ‘Is it Real?’, but this time, I have a similar, yet different question ‘Is it Fake?’ Over the course of the last week as my island home, Jamaica, was hit with one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the Atlantic Basin, there was […]
Hidden in the Valley
As the hurricane approaches Jamaica, I checked in with my sister from another mister. I visited her home some years ago, and one of my favorite views was standing at her back kitchen sink, looking out the window to the majestic mountains, seemingly just outside her window. As I visited earlier this year, and […]
Another Orchid Lesson
Every time I think I’ve learned my orchid lessons, one more seems to pop up. My birthday was a month ago and one of my friends gave me both a beautiful floral arrangement and a gorgeous orchid. She explained that she had seen both and couldn’t decide between the two, so she ended up getting […]