by laura.hicks | Jun 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s lambing season at my house and it is just flat exhausting! You go nonstop. Sometimes I struggle to put one foot in front of the other honestly.I was telling a friend the other day that I felt like I was drowning. It was like I was desperately treading water just...
by laura.hicks | Apr 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Brave. So much meaning in one little word.Webster’s dictionary defines brave as “feeling or showing no fear : not afraid”.There are days I’m sure my picture is right there alongside that definition in the dictionary. Other days, not so much.This morning was one of the...
by laura.hicks | Apr 15, 2015 | health
Do you ever feel like a little fish in a very big pond? Like the world and its problems are so big that there isn’t anyway one person can make a difference?The sin in our world can feel so overwhelming. It can feel defeating at times but God wants to work through us...
by laura.hicks | Apr 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Obedience can be tough! I know in my head what God calls me to is what is truly best, but it still doesn’t always make it easy.A couple of years ago, God called me into youth ministry. You want to talk about feeling unqualified. Yikes! I knew there was no way humanly...
by laura.hicks | Mar 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
The crown of thorns doesn’t fit him. It just doesn’t belong. How could they not see? He was and is the one TRUE king.Beaten, bruised and bloody. That was Jesus on that hill at Golgotha. He had been mocked, insulted, and falsely accused.The human flesh he was in had to...
by laura.hicks | Mar 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
In a recent post we talked about how sports are great for helping us learn how to deal with winning as well as losing and doing both with dignity.Wow, God’s timing (or maybe it was His sense of humor) is amazing. It was less than an hour after I finished that piece...
by laura.hicks | Mar 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Why is it whenever we try to work on teaching someone else, we usually end up being the one doing most of the learning?I work with our church’s youth group. It is mostly junior high and high school students. I love it! I really didn’t feel equipped to teach these kids...
by laura.hicks | Mar 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
We are made for fellowship, in good times and bad. It’s built into us to need relationship. Both with God and other people. For me I have to admit, animals come in a very close third too.We often sing a song in church before communion. The very first...
by laura.hicks | Mar 3, 2015 | family
Sometimes I have grand ideas of what I should share in print. Other times I just stare at the blank screen and am completely baffled. Most of the time, I start typing and God fills in the important parts.Writing is a process of learning for me. I type and God reaches...
by laura.hicks | Feb 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Click clack, click clack. I love the sound of a keyboard humming along with the flow of words. Or the feel of pen on paper scratching out letters that come from my heart.I can get lost in my own little world of words, thoughts and dreams on paper. Sometimes retreating...
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