Mindful Monday: Do Everything with Love

“Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong. And do everything with love.” – 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 (NLT) I’m getting this posted on Monday (my time) just in the nick of time 🙂  It’s been a busy day filled with doctors appointments and a sick little … Continue reading

Mindful Monday: How to Get More Faith

As I mentioned recently, I spent about a week sick in bed with an acute sinus infection. Think terrible cold on steroids and that was me. It hurt my eyes too much to use my computer, so I tended to read a book (the old fashioned paper and ink kind … Continue reading

Mindful Monday: Protect Your Appetite

Today’s Mindful Monday is about our appetite. Sure, she touches on our physical appetite, but what’s most important is our SPIRITUAL appetite. This devotion comes to us from Tracie Miles of Proverbs 31.org and I think it’s really timely for a variety of reasons. As I meditate on this devotion, I’m reminded … Continue reading

Mindful Monday: A Grace Place (by Lysa TerKeurst)

I know I posted a devotional about grace a while back, but this is from a different angle 🙂  I usually share my thoughts about a subject I’m doing the Mindful Monday devotion from, but Lysa Terkerst has shared her devotional in much the way I feel often, so I’m … Continue reading

Mindful Monday: Growth-Don’t Get Ahead of God!

This week’s Mindful Monday devotional is about growth.  It happens to all of us whether we like it or not in the physical realm.  We can have a lot to do with it in the spiritual and emotional realms, however.   Growth is important in all areas of our life. … Continue reading

Mindful Monday 2/17: Waiting

Our Mindful Monday devotion this week is on waiting. Nobody likes waiting.  In our modern hurry and scurry world, everything seems to be based on what’s the fastest, most convenient way of getting anything done.  The fastest way to get from point A to point B.  Fast food restaurants make … Continue reading

Mindful Monday: Making Peace

Hi everyone 🙂 Sorry the Mindful Monday devotion is a little late this week. I got busy with laundry and cleaning my bedroom and time got away from me. I did set a reminder on my cell phone to remind myself, but the app I used doesn’t have an alarm … Continue reading

Mindful Monday: What Goes In, Must Come Out: Garbage In, Garbage Out

Today’s Mindful Monday devotion is about what’s sitting on your shoulders. No, no, not your fancy new hairstyle or your new baby’s spit up 🙂  Your head…or more precisely, your mind! Have you ever stopped to think about the amount of information that enters your brain in a given day? There’s … Continue reading

MINDFUL MONDAY DEVOTION: Being Persistent

For this week’s devotion, I chose Persistence as our topic for the Mindful Monday post because it’s something God seems to be speaking to me about of late.  I read the parable of the persistent widow during my daily Bible reading the other night, and it seems to be what … Continue reading

Mindful Monday: Favored and Blessed

MINDFUL MONDAY DEVOTION – DECEMBER 9, 2013 As I’ve been reflecting on how the Lord used my mother’s pneumonia to get her to the ER where they did an MRI on her chest and stomach and found the gangrenous gall bladder that could have killed her had it not been … Continue reading