Hello Reader, Have you ever had God answer you and not realized it was Him? When God Speaks, Do We Recognize It? Samuel was a young boy the first time he heard God speak. He heard the voice clearly enough to respond. But he ran to the wrong person. Three times God spoke, and three times Samuel went to Eli, certain the old priest had called him. Samuel as a boy could hear, yet he did not recognize the Speaker. Even as a boy, Samuel loved God. He served in the temple and slept near the ark of...
4 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, Thanks for reading. Here is a new inspirational teaching for June! She Knew She Was Supposed To Walk My niece has a set of twins who are at that age where their whole little world shifts by the day. They pull up on furniture and test their legs against gravity. One of them stands at the coffee table for a moment, wobbles with pride, and sits right back down again. Her sister, from the floor pushed up onto her hands. With her hips in the air and legs tucked underneath her she...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Dear Reader, Thank you so much for reading my emails every month and responding with such love. I continue to pray for each of you. I hope you are blessed in some way! After a year of writing, I'm so happy to announce that my Christian Supernatural Mystery Suspense novel, Forgotten Promise, is finally here. I believe stories our open hearts to spiritual truth and encourage us in a fun and exciting way. This weekend, I am offering a launch special to my email list and social media. A CHRISTIAN...
3 months ago • 1 min read
The Words You Need to Hear Again I was listening to Romans on my walk yesterday. And by the time Paul reached those final verses in Romans 8, I stopped on the path for a moment and thought, We just need to hear these words once in a while. To just let them wash over us. Because here is what I know after years of this Christian life: We go through seasons we do not know how to handle. We face things we do not have the words to pray. We face situations we cannot fix with our own knowledge, no...
4 months ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, I hope you had a great Easter. I wrote this inspirational teaching for my website and thought you might enjoy it here as well! Cynthia The tomb is empty, but what does Easter mean for your Monday morning? Discover the resurrection power available to you right now through the Holy Spirit. When the Songs Fade and Monday Arrives I stood at my kitchen counter on the Monday after Easter, and my tea had gone cold. Easter lilies sat wilting on the table. The dress I wore the day before...
5 months ago • 6 min read
Greetings Reader, The Spirit Was Burning Within Me At sixteen, he was kidnapped from his family's villa on the coast of Britain, chained, and dragged onto a raider's ship as a slave. He was carried across the cold Irish Sea to Ireland, a barbarian land. Hundreds of warring pagan tribes and druids meant no escape, no appeal, and no rescue. He was alone in a country where he knew no one and did not speak the language. And by his own later admission, he barely even knew God. This was who we know...
6 months ago • 7 min read
Dear Reader, When I was in my early twenties, I found myself on the front porch of my parents' house, tears streaming down my face. My husband had left. I had a baby and no money. I was devastated. My mom sat down beside me and said something that stuck in my heart: "God is love. Your husband loved you as much as he could, but he didn't have much to give because he didn’t have much of God.” Then she said, “But God is love itself. And He has everything to give you." In that moment, God held...
7 months ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, Time to Check Your Roots A hurricane stripped limbs and leaves from trees in my neighborhood a couple years ago. Pines toppled, and my neighbor’s maple trunk snapped in two. Yet the sabal palm remained unfazed, unbroken, and swaying in winds that shattered everything around it. Its secret lay beneath the surface, where its roots had spent years growing deep into the soil. A New Year Invitation A new year offers us a chance to pause and assess our lives. We set goals, make...
8 months ago • 4 min read
Happy December Reader, Earlier this week, I posted a simple challenge on social media: Read one chapter of Luke each day starting December 1st, and by Christmas, you'll have read the entire book. I'm doing it too. As I began reading, my heart began to stir with hope. Chapter after chapter, miracle after miracle unfolded before me: Elizabeth and Zacharias, barren for decades, held their promised son. A virgin conceived the Savior of the world. Angels appeared Mary, Joseph, and to shepherds in...
9 months ago • 1 min read