Tag: Jesus
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I Never Wanted to Eat Again Until I Found One Perfect Thing
Discomfort is quite the teacher, isn’t it? This day, my overindulgence drove me to hunger for bread — but only one kind — more than anything else.
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Just Ask: Two Words God Uses to Change Your World
I get the sense that God is training me to “just ask” Him for help. Part of that is going outside of my comfort zone to ask others for what I need or want.
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This Is How You Can Live Life to the Fullest as a Christian
How do you relate to your personal servants — your body, mind, appetites of the body such as hunger or thirst or lust? Are you ruling over them?
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‘How Can You Suggest Your Brother Went to Heaven?’ He Asked
What if you come to the realization that Jesus is the Son of God who came to take away your sins, moments before you die? What then? That’s what he asked me.
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When “To keep or not to keep?” isn’t the right question…
My husband has been cleaning out the garage the past couple of months — giving it order and practicality and ridding it of all things unnecessary. Which would include all of my belongings housed there, apparently. Originally, the garage — built 18 years ago — had a definite organization. A place for everything and everything…
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A blog by any other name…
My infant son left the hospital as “No Name Dagen.” “I have to see the baby before I can name it,” my husband had insisted before this child’s birth. Apparently, it wasn’t “name at first sight,” because we left the hospital without a decision on a name for our baby boy. In fact, it seemed to…
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The quiet of Christmas…
I’m not sure if my son sees only what he wants to see or if he truly doesn’t notice the sticks accumulating around our wooded lawn. As the youngest and only Dagen child remaining at home, he has the dubious honor of being needed for chores — one of which is picking up sticks and…
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I woke up this morning…
Yesterday, while waiting for the Yummy House to open so I could order some Chinese food for our evening meal, I began scribbling this post. I had left work shortly before 4, gotten home at 4:16, and found my husband waiting, hungry — but offering to order out for dinner. No cooking? No clean-up? I…
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Grace for each new day…
A few days ago, when I blamed blogging on my bladder, I received this comment: lol found you on Blogher and I came here thinking you were gonna blame blogging for a weak bladder LOL…for me…I am like a camel, I will put off going pee until I “just finish this last little paragraph…” hahahahaha…
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Nothing like that just-brushed feeling…
In addition to my usual post-church grocery shopping routine, this morning I took the time to take my van through the automatic car wash. It was about six months overdue. As I unpacked my groceries, I admired my mostly clean and shiny car and thought to myself, “I need to do this every week.” Clean…
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Finding the Son in the sun…
“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus” — Blaise Pascal When I was in my first year of college I received the “Benjamin Franklin ‘early to bed, early to rise’ ” award.…
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In the Garden of Weedin’…
“If I ‘accidentally’ advertised ‘free WEEDing opportunity,’ really emphasizing weed and really de-emphasizing the -ing, would people get the right wrong idea and come—and then stay and help weed?” Those were my thoughts as I weeded yesterday morning. I considered posting something on Facebook and even crafted visual aids to drive home the effect—-in my mind. But the…
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Hope floats and other flooring deceptions…
24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who…
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That is just so God!
Sometimes I see God’s love for me in people, even when they may have never intended it. Sunday morning, I was backstage in between songs at our first church service, while one of the vocalists sang a solo by Martina McBride titled “God’s Will.” Though I was behind the wall, I could hear the words…
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Jesus is in the equation…
For the life of me, I can’t remember how I came to this conclusion with my Algebra IA students several years ago, but somehow, I ended the equation I was demonstrating with, “See, Jesus is in the equation.” At the time, we laughed–but we also saw the truth in the statement. This week, when my…
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Out of the heart?
A long time ago in a faraway land, otherwise known as Singletown, I dated an artist who used his talent to woo my heart. On one particular card he drew a caricature of himself with heart-shaped voice bubbles rising out of him, each with the word “Sara” within. Inside the card, it simply had the…
All Things Work Together 