Yesterday afternoon I was on my way to a meeting with Lysa when I called my friend Holly from my cell phone. We were talking about where we could meet the next day so I could pick up something she needed me to take to the P31 office. Suddenly our call dropped. “That’s odd,” I […]
Pressing In
There was a theme of “pressing” during my Amani week. I was pressing wrinkles out of clothes and probably pressing Christen’s buttons as I displayed my lack of skill in the retail clothing area. But more than that I was pressing into God, listening for His direction in my heart of what I should be […]
The Story Behind the Steamer
Saturday night when I went to bed (after our family dinner and private fashion parade), my heart filled with such sadness knowing that they were leaving the next day. I asked God to stretch out the hours on Sunday until they headed to the airport at 2pm. As you can read above, He did! I […]
Just Where I Needed to Be
God’s plans for my time with the Amani women unfolded in ways that I couldn’t have planned. It was abundantly more than I had asked for or imagined. I had originally only signed up to be a hostess. I thought it would be great to meet some women from Africa and invite them to stay […]
Satisfy Me in the Morning
I’ve been reading your stories about how you have also felt that longing for God’s unconditional love. Isn’t it such a process? The day I described in Friday’s post was just the first time I realized what I had been looking for and where I would find it. But clinging to it, living in it […]