A few years after I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, I still suffered from too many negative feelings and beliefs. I experienced jealousy, rejection, unloved, unable to connect to the feeling of love in my heart, emptiness, shame, guilt, and all kinds of fears—even though my church friends considered me a good Christian. So I began to pray…
In the Bible God promises to restore us to health and heal our wounds. Here is a healing encounter my husband Gerald experienced about 15 years ago. “I was in a situation where I felt very disconnected from the people I was with, people who were very close to me. That evening I prayed & asked the Lord what my…
Love is key in creating a life-giving atmosphere in our homes and churches. Love is a powerful force that can open closed hearts. The Bible tells us that ultimately love is all important; it is everything. Yet we continue to have a poverty of love in our nation, our homes, churches, and institutions. I have seen my own poverty too.…
The following is from a recording of my talk to Women’s Aglow, Lexington, MA, 1980, just after burying our teenage son: It is good to be home with you. I want you to know that our God is a God of victory. Our God reigns today! Even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death we need…
One dark wintry day our teenage son, frustrated by the long, harsh winter, asked his Grandmother, “Will spring ever come?” Her confident response: “Yes! It always does!” In the years since, we have discovered that life comes out of death, light comes out of darkness. As he struggled to find a new life after leaving his engineering career behind, my…
This message was transcribed from Ralph Nault’s audio tape recorded September 22, 2001 We are at war and that’s what I’m going to talk about, but in a little bit different way than on TV, because I want to cover it from the viewpoint of the church and the involvement in this war as the church, as the people of…
When I was a kid, I believed all the Bible stories. The characters were real people, they heard from God, their world—and eventually, indirectly, mine—was changed, things happened in the spiritual dimension. But that was then; God functions quite differently in the 20th century, according to the King James Bible (Scofield’s notes said so, and they were right up there…
In the early years of my spiritual journey, I often heard people pray, “Lord, get him!” —sometimes with judgmental vindictiveness. This troubled me, but I didn’t know why. One day my eyes fell on St. Paul’s words and the Holy Spirit caused me to see something I’d been blind to: it is the kindness of God that brings us to…
Many years ago, I dreamed the following dream. I believe it was metaphorically depicting the nature of the journey that the Spirit of God was inviting me to. “Jump,” the Voice behind me urges. Filled with apprehension, I look out the window. A sea of rooftops stretches into the distance. I understand that this unseen Voice wants me to leap…
Looking back over your life you can find numerous clues to your potential destiny, like your favorite childhood game, gift, fairy tale, book—or song. Accordions were all the rage in our town in the early 1950s. So despite my brief sojourn with the cello (broken) and my inability to warble “Jesus Loves Me” on key, I convinced my Dad to…