by Debbie W. Wilson | Jul 20, 2021 | Bible Study, Contentment, Relationship with God
My teenaged heart awoke to God while lying on my back on a dock staring at stars visible only to someone away from city lights. The smell of the marsh, the rhythmic lap of the river, and the chirping night symphony cast a spell that made me feel small, yet part of...
by Larry Wilson | Jun 8, 2021 | Contentment, Relationships
Today Larry offers three tips for finding quality friends. Author Dan Miller once asked, “Is the music still in you”? If life has become more of a grind than a joy, you may need a friend. Women seem to understand this need more than men. Yet we all need friends. Even...
by Guest Post | Jul 9, 2019 | Contentment, Relationships
Are you ready to move from running-on-empty to spent-and-content, investing your life in soul-satisfying ways? My friends Amy Carroll and Cheri Gregory, co-authors of Exhale, gently walk us through a process of losing who we’re not and loving who we are so that we can...
by Debbie W. Wilson | Feb 26, 2019 | Contentment, Eternal Perspective, Faith and Salvation, Personal Growth
My friends sat on the front porch steps of the little house my husband and I had just purchased. Instead of celebrating with us, their body language and words showed they thought we’d lost our minds. Obviously, they couldn’t see the potential we saw. After my husband...
by Debbie W. Wilson | Dec 19, 2017 | Christmas, Contentment
With Christmas less than a week away, I was remembering one of my favorite Christmases. The first Christmas I spent away from my family was also my first Christmas of walking with the Lord. I was living in Needham, Massachusetts. Having grown up in the deep south, my...
by Debbie W. Wilson | May 9, 2017 | Contentment, God's will, Mother's Day, Purpose
A friend in Bible study recently said she desperately wanted to know her calling. She looked around our group, “God made you a Bible teacher,” she said to me. She pointed to the friend next to her and said, “God made you good at many things. I don’t do anything....