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December 2012

December 28, 2012

Family Love Letters

I think our most under-expressed emotion is our love, appreciation and gratitude for each other....

December 25, 2012

A Christmas Letter to Hurting Young Adults

Christmas can be full of wonder. But if you are hurting, it can be downright...

December 21, 2012

Brother’s Keeper

Victoria Soto, 27, hid her students in the cabinets and closets before the gunman stormed...

December 19, 2012

How Great is God’s Love

Love. God has lavished such great love on us that He calls us His children!...

December 13, 2012

WTF

My friends, I'm delighted to announce I've got videos up from my recent retreat --...

December 11, 2012

Religion = Death

I learned something new today. Religion means to tie back, constrain, as in bondage. Fascinating!...

December 06, 2012

The Picture of Grace

What comes to mind when I say the name "Jesus"? Do you think of his...

December 04, 2012

The Rainbow Connection

My husband, daughter and I are on a ship right now. Out over the vast...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Behavior Modification Program??

Jesus is the founder and finisher of our faith. Our faith. NOT our actions! Oh,...

November 23, 2012

Thanksgiving Reflections

Yesterday was Thanksgiving. We spent the day with people we love. My sisters, next to...

November 20, 2012

Lavish, Abundant God

Our God is an awesomely creative, amazingly abundant, beyond-our-imagination God. This flower is a beautiful, garden...

November 16, 2012

Garbage In, Garbage Putting up its Feet and Turning on the TV

Lately, I've been taking stock of my eating habits. I've always tried to eat somewhat...

November 14, 2012

Life Beyond the List

How are you doing with that to-do list? That infernal list we all have that...

November 08, 2012

Mean Streets

You can find almost anything on the streets of New York, including scams. One is...

November 06, 2012

Being Undragoning

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." So begins...

November 02, 2012

Just How Vulnerable Are We?

Four days ago, my daughter Annie's apartment building in Brooklyn was decimated by Sandy. She...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Torture: The Heart of Man

It’s Halloween. Time for Hannibal Lecter and the guy in the hockey mask from Friday...

October 25, 2012

It’s Here, It’s Here!

Just a quick word to all my blog followers… the new book is in! It’s...

October 18, 2012

Disappearing Sin

We have valet trash where we live. I'm never lived anywhere that you just put...

October 16, 2012

Get to Know Me!

"Before you knew Me, you expressed your longing for Me in hurtful ways. You were...

October 11, 2012

Focus Hocus-Pocus

"What gets your focus gets you." Mike Wells Mike Wells, a beautiful servant of...

October 10, 2012

Psycho

When Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho came out, it was a shocker! I was in college the...

October 08, 2012

Follow Freedhearts Ministries on Facebook & Twitter

Freedhearts Ministries is on Facebook () and Twitter () now. Be sure to Like &...

October 05, 2012

Dance the Night Away

Robbie and I have been dancing. I say this because we never dance. I never...

October 02, 2012

An Empty Bag

Nothing animates me more than to teach the abiding life of Christ—I love speaking and...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Unachievable Love

Love. God's love. To love another without condition of receiving anything in return. OH. MY....

September 26, 2012

Prayer, prayer, prayer

"We must go forward on our knees." Hudson Taylor, on bringing China the good news...

September 20, 2012

Specificity with God

My family knows me for my prayer life -- talking to God in the kitchen...

September 18, 2012

Got a Date!

I've got a date. Bible study starts this morning, and I was having a little...

September 14, 2012

The Holy Spirit Lives Here

My precious friend called from Phoenix today to share something that had happened at her...