I will thank the LORD for his righteousness. I will sing about the name of the LORD Most High. Psalms 7:17 Recently, as I was reading my Bible, my attention was drawn to the way God was introducing Himself to people by using various names. The names He chose to introduce Himself were characteristic of both His nature and His activity in their lives at that moment. The story of Hagar in Genesis 16 particularly stood out to me. She was a slave of Abram and Sarai and pregnant with Abram’s child because they got impatient concerning God’s promise to give them a child of their own. Sarai had been…
You Ever Feel Stuck?
This morning I was nestled in my favorite spot- my prayer chair that sits in the corner by my living room window. I love communing with the Lord in this spot every morning and watching out the window as the world awakens. My window frames a beautiful picture every morning of the sun rising and casting its rays of light through the bank of trees in my front yard. However, today the picture looks different. It is largely overcast today and the dark gray clouds seem to be trying their best to choke out the sun. And the thing that really caught my attention was the clouds were rolling. Instead of…
Partners of Hope
Living in Oklahoma can be brutal in July and August. High humidity combined with temperatures hovering around the century mark, can be suffocating. That is why it is almost a ceremonial event flipping the page of my calendar from August to September. It makes me happy. It’s funny how a turn of the page can instantly change my mood even though the conditions are the same. The reality is it’s supposed to hit a high of 100 degrees today, and let’s not even talk about the heat index. But it doesn’t matter to me. At some point today I’ll find my way to a pumpkin spice latte to celebrate the…
She Rises Review, Part Two
As I mentioned in the last post, Cherry and I thought it would be a good idea to take the time to review what we have learned so far this year. If you are new to our She Rises Facebook Group this is an opportunity for you to catch up on what we have been discussing the past six months. And if you have been with us for the entire journey, the review will help it better settle in your long term memory. In our last blog post we reviewed the following: A woman who rises is one who is engaged. A woman who rises is available. A woman who…
