Donna Jackson
A Battle We Can Win
You couldn’t have asked for a better day. Raleigh’s afternoon temperature rose as the sun peeked through the rainy morning’s vanishing clouds. My family enjoyed the time spent with Ron’s sister and her family at their neighborhood pool, especially since we had it all to ourselves. We raced each other like big kids, slid down […]
A New Replay Button Please
My mind keeps hitting the replay button on two separate conversations I recently had with two not-so-different women. In our last Bible study at the city jail, one lady making a return visit, explained how she had given her life to the Lord and thought all her troubles would vanish. When they didn’t, she blamed […]
Life is Not the Pits
Blessings pour out weekly on a few friends and me as we lead a women’s bible study in the local jail. During that hour we are reminded how hopeless and depressing life can be without God and how with Him our souls sing. One of my favorite go-to passages for these ladies is Psalm 40:1-3: […]
Granny Peace
My great-grandmother lived 99 years. We called her Granny Peace. Peace was her last name. Isn’t that a great name? She loved to laugh and loved to make others laugh by telling great stories. Her visits with my grandmother usually lasted about a week which gave me a great chance to fill up on “Granny […]
Do It Anyway
An object lesson in the hands of a good teacher has the potential to be life changing. When that teacher is God, it is always a good idea to pay close attention. Perhaps His most unique object lesson of all time involved the prophet Hosea. God told Hosea, His minister to the Israelites, to marry […]
More Spirit, Please
Do you have a slice of life that has been topped with a heavy dollop of the Holy Spirit? You know, one of those times when you were able to do something you thought was impossible. Maybe you said that thing you’ve always wanted to say to a non-believing friend and it really did make […]
Is Your Coat White?
Sunday afternoon, we proudly traveled to the campus of UAB (University of Alabama–Birmingham) for my daughter-in-law’s white coat ceremony signifying her immersion into the rigors of medical school. There we learned a doctor’s white coat was first used to signify cleanliness and purity in an age when the knowledge of bacteria was still an infant. Later, […]
Have You Found Your Passion?
What were you doing before you got to your computer? What do you plan to do with the rest of your day? Do you enjoy what you do or is your life on cruise control? Is your life centered on yourself or your God? I’ve been reading a book by Renee Swope titled, A Confident […]
Drip, Drip, Drip
Some say participating in a sport is a metaphor for life. Good sports show humility when they win and learn from their mistakes when they lose. They must be confident without being arrogant, determined without being stubborn and strong without losing their poise. Sunday afternoon I woke up from my nap and saw the final […]
Time to Refill
Yesterday, time after time I plunged my bucket into the word well hoping to pull up something clever or catchy or maybe just a scrap of an old meaningful memory. But each hoist only brought me an empty bucket. I have been poured out like a drink offering and it’s time to refill. This past […]
