Posts Tagged with: coming to faith

BREATH MY ONLY BOUNDARY

By Posted in - general & poetry & published & Uncategorized & writing on February 12th, 2021 0 Comments

HI Y’ALL! I appreciate all your sweet messages and thanks for checking on me. In answer to the two questions I get asked most: YES I am still writing and YES I am still in …

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How My Fear Became Faith

By Posted in - courage & published & Uncategorized & writing on March 15th, 2020 3 Comments

Fear was my father’s favorite game and one I learned to play at four years old.

With gleaming green eyes and a wicked sense of humor, my father was a force. His family had always been …

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a very good place to start

By Posted in - favorites & general & Uncategorized on September 2nd, 2018 2 Comments

Before I repost some of my other favorite pieces, it makes sense to first retell the story of how this journey as The Jesus Gypsy began. It is, quite frankly, my very favorite story to …

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on Willie Nelson, Puppy Dogs, and the Holy Spirit

By Posted in - books & dogs & general & music & Uncategorized on May 10th, 2017 8 Comments

I am essentially an expert emotional escape artist. I am also a professional performer.

“PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN,” my life has shouted through the years.

We moved around like gypsies growing up …

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the what

By Posted in - general & scripture & talks & writing on July 5th, 2015 3 Comments

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast… Ephesians 2:8-9

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the who

By Posted in - scripture & talks & writing on June 14th, 2015 5 Comments

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”   John 14:6

In the last post, I stated that we must …

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roots

By Posted in - general & scripture & talks & writing on May 21st, 2015 3 Comments

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then …

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the rest of the story

By Posted in - general & Uncategorized on July 24th, 2014 2 Comments

I have forever found stories fascinating and always wanted to dig deeper into people’s lives and really “get them.”   Perhaps that is why my degree is in Psychology (or was that more because I didn’t quite …

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a million sin-miles away (my testimony)

By Posted in - general & writing on July 1st, 2014 2 Comments

As I mentioned in my last post, I recently got to share my testimony with my new church family at Austin Ridge Bible Church.  In doing so, I realized I had never really never …

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hungry

By Posted in - general on September 14th, 2013 0 Comments

I love being hungry. Not physically of course (I don’t like THAT at all). I mean I love being spiritually hungry.

I think faith has its seasons, or at lease mine seems to. There are times of hunger, …

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