Holy Land 2022
It's been over a week since we returned from our Holy Land pilgrimage. What an amazing, life changing journey! Many people told me that...
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Michelle Joy Waters
- Feb 18, 2021
- 2 min
Stranger Things have happened on Ash Wednesday
Yesterday wasn't the strangest Ash Wednesday, but it was certainly up there. Twenty-five years ago—Ash Wednesday 1996—Eric got down on...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Nov 30, 2020
- 2 min
We Do Not Lose Heart
One of my children's all time favorite VBS songs is "We Do Not Lose Heart!" based on 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. The littlest ones always...
Michelle Joy Waters
- May 22, 2020
- 2 min
Now What?
Here we are. Not much has changed. School ended without any fanfare. We held our breath, waiting for the end of "Zoom Gloom," monitoring...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Mar 13, 2020
- 2 min
Are You Afraid You've Fallen Behind?
As meetings, practices, schools, and travel get cancelled one by one due to the pandemic known as the coronavirus, we find ourselves...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Mar 6, 2020
- 1 min
We Have It Backwards
Lent is a time to subdue our physical nature in the hope that our oft forgotten spiritual nature will be brought to the surface, refined,...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Feb 21, 2020
- 2 min
How to let go of Negative Thoughts
No one knows exactly how many thoughts we have each day, but it's more than you'd expect: experts say it's up there in the tens of...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Feb 14, 2020
- 1 min
It's Time to say Goodbye to my Bible
Sadly, the time has come. Truth be told, it's long overdue. My beloved Bible—the one that's been with me for the last twenty years—has...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Feb 7, 2020
- 2 min
5 Things I Love about the Lord
He's my PEACE when there is no peace. Jeremiah was having a moment with the leaders of God's people. They were supposed to be lovingly...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Dec 6, 2019
- 1 min
Protect Your Peace
I heard a great interview the other day with former NFL player turned Life Coach Trent Shelton. The two main take aways were: protect...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Nov 22, 2019
- 2 min
All About Advent
Everyone loves a new beginning. We don't have to wait until the new year to start over; the first Sunday of Advent signals the beginning...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Nov 1, 2019
- 1 min
How to Rest (Even with 55 Days til Christmas)
Getting past Halloween means one thing and one thing only: we have now entered the holiday season. Most people will white knuckle it...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Sep 6, 2019
- 2 min
Want Peace? Start Here.
I didn't plan to spend three hours yesterday getting X-rays and a cast for my oldest son. But it also didn't send me into some kind of...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Aug 23, 2019
- 3 min
Are You Tired of School Mornings Already?
Ah, back to school. Most moms breathe a sigh of relief as the bus pulls away that first day. But by day four or five, what begins as mild...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Jul 19, 2019
- 2 min
Homesick.
All eight of us are coming and going a lot more than usual this summer. Trips with friends, camps, vacations, competitions, a funeral,...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Feb 11, 2019
- 2 min
Hearing from God
"I don't know what God wants me to do." That's something I hear quite a bit. We'd love God to give us clear direction about the big and...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Jan 17, 2019
- 3 min
The Purpose of Prayer
Preacher, evangelist, and prayer warrior, R.A. Torrey, graduated from Yale Divinity School more than 100 years before I did. He also had...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Jan 17, 2019
- 1 min
The Possibilities of Prayer
What happens when we pray? We move from the impossibilities of our humanity into the infinite possibilities of His divinity: "with man...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Jan 16, 2019
- 3 min
Planning to Pray
While many of us have good intentions regarding spending time in prayer, life gets in the way. There's always something competing for our...
Michelle Joy Waters
- Oct 22, 2018
- 3 min
The Problems with Prayer
Let's face it, we all encounter problems in our prayer life more often than we'd like to admit. Lack of motivation, not committing the...