Posts by Merrill

SHORT STICK!

Posted by on Feb 3, 2010 | 0 comments

I find that in a life that is shared with others, loved ones, especially family, no matter how hard we try to make and keep everyone happy, someone draws the Short Stick. With each situation it is different. Some days it’s the kids or a specific child who been given the Short Stick. Other times it can be a spouse, friend or family member. Maybe it’s work. It can even be the house after a long week of running. But more often it is you…..the woman, the mom, the wife, because we are usually more comfortable being the owner of the Short Stick. The key to this is that wonderful word balance, and understanding without guilt, that life is a matter of choices presented to...

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Mountain Air……Morning Chats

Posted by on Jan 28, 2010 | 1 comment

Some days we just have to quiet ourselves… our spirits, hearts and minds…. our world, to really hear what God wants to speak into our life.. He comes in a whisper and that can be hard to hear in our busy loud lives! May you find some quiet and hear what he has to say to you! I am in North Carolina getting ready for a Girls Retreat. We have 30 women coming and I am so excited to see what God has in store for them and me! If you read my Moses Moments you know that I was a bit apprehensive about what I was to speak on. And even as I was heading up here I still have not quite wrapped my mind around what God wanted me to say. Oh I knew the theme and topics but...

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Sabbath Saturday

Posted by on Jan 23, 2010 | 0 comments

YEAH, It’s Saturday!!!! My day for “Fruitful Uselessness” of rest, play and delight! There is something wonderful about doing nothing of significance. Just to be. I read all about this in a wonderful book a few years back called SABBATH by Wayne Muller. I love the book, it has kind of become a hand book for life in my house and it’s fresh look at what Sabbath can mean in our lives and in our homes. Mark 2:27 says….”You are not made for the Sabbath, the Sabbath was made for YOU!” I think sometimes we just get that backwards and don’t really grasp what a gift a sabbath moment can be. So today I am going to play, lay, write,...

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Moses Moments

Posted by on Jan 20, 2010 | 0 comments

I have been preparing for a woman’s retreat which I feel blessed to be a part of. We have a wonderful  “Team” of girls ( 3 of us) who all have unique gifts and talents. There is someone to organize the housing, fun and meals. Then someone to handle the money and maps on how to get there. I get the worship slice of the pie. Music and Jesus.This is community in action! As I am preparing I am very prayerful about what it is that God wants to say to these women. As always it is not about me but what God want’s to speak into each of our lives, mine included. Sometimes as the very human girl that I am, I can feel enormous responsibility or pressure to...

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“Help, I need somebody….”

Posted by on Jan 17, 2010 | 0 comments

Love this Beatles song. It is how we all feel at times but we just don’t sing it loud enough. Everybody needs a little help now and then, but we don’t ask. We either are too arrogant to ask….I can do it myself! Or embarrassed to ask….Others will know I am a mess and don’t have it together! Or maybe we just don’t think anyone really cares. WRONG! This is a song that I have learned to sing loudly over the last few years. Being a single mom, trying to start a business, juggling life, bills, children, house repairs and all the unexpected things life throws at you. I have had to yell “Help!” Now let me tell you this was not...

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