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Oasis

In just over a week we will be heading to our bi-annual ladies’ retreat.  I’ll spare you the details (you can find them on the retreat portion of the website), but I want to share a little bit about what the retreat has meant to me over the last six months of preparation. There are… Continue Reading

SOTD Psalm 42

Psalm 42 BOOK TWO Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul? To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. 1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before… Continue Reading

SOTD Psalm 41

Psalm 41 O LORD, Be Gracious to Me To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. 1 Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him; 2the LORD protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to… Continue Reading

SOTD Psalm 40

Psalm 40 My Help and My Deliverer To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. 1I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. 2He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. 3He put… Continue Reading

California Idols: Kids’ Success

This is something I wrote last November for a personal blog… As I sat at Starbucks this morning, trying out the new Thanksgiving brew from the new Christmas cups, I couldn’t help but overhear a conversation between two couples about their sons and baseball.  Essentially, they were conversing about their sons’ involvement with travel baseball… Continue Reading

California Idols: Sports

I sat there as a scrawny 7th grader holding my breathe as my soccer coach announced the most valuable player on the team…would it be me? No…that year I received the “Hustle” award.  Basically, I tried really hard, but wasn’t the best. Even though the Jr. High soccer team I played for did not really… Continue Reading

SOTD Psalm 39

Psalm 39 What Is the Measure of My Days? To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. 1I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.” 2I was mute and silent;… Continue Reading

SOTD Psalm 38

Psalm 38 Do Not Forsake Me, O LORD A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering. 1O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath! 2For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me. 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your… Continue Reading