If you’ve read my profile page (see the “About” tab), you’ll know there were many things I wanted to be when I grew up. The most elegant of dancers was one of them. In fact, I’d say it held a spot near the top of my childhood list. Alas, something went woefully wrong with that […]
Royalty Realm
Like most people, entering a new year gets my most hopeful juices flowing. I admit I was ready to wave “buh-bye!” to 2011. Then without so much as a hiccup, the New Year came splashing in upon us like a jet boat churning up water. We’ve been riding the wake the past two weeks. 2012 […]
Royalty Realm – The End
Before you think to yourself, “Wow, that’s the shortest blog theme ever written…,” let me explain! In the two weeks since I wrote the Royalty Realm introductory post, a lot of hard work and sore muscles has ensued. My husband and I moved the counseling office to a more suitable location. We now have in […]
Royalty Realm – Stunning Beauty
Then I looked, and, oh!–a door open into Heaven. The trumpet-voice, the first voice in my vision, called out, “Ascend and enter. I’ll show you what happens next. 2 I was caught up at once in deep worship and, oh!–a Throne set in Heaven with One Seated on the Throne, 3 suffused in gem hues […]
Royalty Realm – His Scepter Extended
Timid’s turn to step across the threshold into the King’s presence was fast approaching. Up till now, the long queues of inhabitants in the Royalty Realm had made it easy for her to demur and “graciously” grant cuts in line, thus assuring she would never quite reach the entryway. Her summons had come much earlier. […]
Royalty Realm – Unconcealed
There is a state in the Royalty Realm where your heart as a believer can no longer remain concealed. It pulses with desire to know and be known by the Lord. It longs to know the plans He has been thinking of regarding you; plans he has designed for your welfare and safety, with a […]
Royalty Realm – Christ Our Apparel
My husband and I have a running joke when one of us, in the course of conversation, declares, “I had an idea!” The other one’s funny bone gets tickled and usually pops off with the reply, “Ah! Two BBs in a boxcar collided!” Somehow it never gets old; it just sends us off into a […]
Royalty Realm – Christ Our Apparel, Part 2
Another BB collided as I started typing this blog post with the boxcar and railroad track intro. It never occurred to me until my fingers hit my laptop keyboard: my maternal grandfather was a railroad man right up until his death. I was only five months old when he died so I never knew my […]
Royalty Realm – Real Simple
Life doesn’t get much simpler than living, moving, and having your being in the kingdom of Heaven, aka the Royalty Realm. It’s the constant monitoring of self-imposed or others-imposed expectations that wears you down to a sputter and drains the joy right out of your oil pan. Take Jesus for example… While Jesus lived His […]
Royalty Realm – Sticky Fingers
Have you recently dipped your fingers in a pot of honey and swiped a big swath of sticky sweetness? Unless you’re a bear, my guess is probably ‘not lately.’ Here in the Royalty Realm, however, sticky fingers are a precious commodity… In Psalm 119, tucked away like bee’s candy in a hive, is a verse […]