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Stacy - has written 53 posts on "The Intersection". If you would like to send an email with comments or questions, you can use the link below to send an email. She writes about herself....
My dear husband says I’m feisty, quirky, and spunky. Some friends describe me as sensitive, caring and compassionate. Another friend laughs at my (frequent) cooking mishaps. My daughter thinks I’m a great tea-party companion and, currently, my infant son views me as the milk machine. And who do I say I am? Well, that’s tricky to answer. Definitely all of the above, but so much more. I’m a woman who desperately loves God. I try to follow His will and purposes for my life–sometimes I’m successful, yet many times I fail miserably. Sunsets refresh me and watching the ocean’s waves invigorates me as I view a dance my God orchestrated. Traveling allows me to view God’s distinct fingerprints. Running clears my mind and reading lets me journey to places my budget or time constraints would never accommodate. Being a freelance writer and public speaker is terrifying yet simultaneously immensely gratifying. For more information about me, see the "About Author" pages.
Twelve Against One
13. That was my answer to a friend’s text asking how many people I personally know who are unemployed. Thirteen! A baker’s dozen wondering if they will keep their house or how they’ll pay this month’s bills. Luke 8:14 talks about those whose faith is choked out by life’s worries. Some of my thirteen unemployed [...]
Continue reading...More than he Longed For
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Some of my friends had tuberculosis a few years ago. In order to prevent spreading this highly contagious disease, they had to stay in their apartment all day, every day. They ordered groceries online with instructions for the food to be placed outside their door. Only at night were they allowed to leave their enclosure, [...]
Continue reading...Jesus no where to be Found
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Jerusalem A twelve year old boy has been missing the past three days. His parents, Mary and Joseph, were returning to Nazareth after celebrating the Passover and mistakenly believed Jesus was in their company. It wasn’t until they traveled a day that they realized the child was not with any of their relatives. They immediately [...]
Continue reading...New Knives
Sunday, December 27, 2009
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 My husband has been wanting a new set of knives for years. I couldn’t figure out why. After all, [...]
Continue reading...Expecting
Sunday, December 6, 2009
We expected it for years. The coming of Messiah to free us from our oppressors. Oh, how we longed for that day. But suddenly the corporate turned individual. I was expecting, awaiting to give birth to the Son of God. What an incomprehensible thought! I mean, the holy scrolls recorded long ago that a virgin [...]
Continue reading...One Action
Sunday, November 15, 2009
One action changes everything. Don’t believe me? Just read Acts 18:24-26. Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately.” [...]
Continue reading...She Gave Her All
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Over 1 billion not served. Can you imagine how that would look hanging below the golden arches? A broadcast that 1 billion people worldwide are going hungry. An announcement that in the time it takes you to read this short devotional, several children will have died from malnutrition. McDonald’s might not be announcing it, but it is [...]
Continue reading...Two Paths Intersected
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Some might say it was nothing more than coincidence—me walking out of town at exactly the moment he walked in. Yet not even providence could have arranged that as I followed my son’s casket outside the city to the place I would bury him, the one who claimed to be the giver of life entered [...]
Continue reading...Diametrically Opposed Oneness
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Two sisters with two very different personalities. Yet when their greatest time of grief came, both Mary and Martha said exactly the same thing: Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” (John 11:21 and John 11:32) Perhaps their motives for saying it were different. Maybe one said it with bitterness, angry at [...]
Continue reading...Purpose with a Past
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Mary of Magdala Objective: Desiring a position in which I can utilize my gifts and find purpose. Previous experience: Previously inhabited by seven demons. Oh, come on. This resume would never stand a chance. Inhabited by not just one but seven demons? And submitted by a woman nonetheless in a time and culture where women’s rights were virtually non-existent. [...]
Continue reading...Shame a Runnin’
Sunday, August 2, 2009
No one else was around. She knew there wouldn’t be. She purposefully avoided them. Well, that’s what she told herself at least, but the fact of the matter was that all the townspeople were much too willing to sidestep her. So here she was again, drawing water in the heat of the day when everyone [...]
Continue reading...Dancing without Music
Sunday, July 12, 2009
The dancing couldn’t be contained to just her feet. Her entire body swung and bobbed to the tune no one else could hear. They thought the music ended much too suddenly. Hannah, however, knew it had just started. In an elaborate (and to my mind, incomprehensible) form of worship, Hannah celebrated and praised as never before. [...]
Continue reading...An Unlikely Royal Response
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Unheard of. A queen listening to the advice of a commoner. My fairy-tale derived images of royalty can barely comprehend that thought. And yet, once again, we see Queen Esther defying any stereotypes one might have of someone in her position. Mordecai, Esther’s beloved uncle, revealed a plan in which the royal advisor wanted to [...]
Continue reading...Just Wondering
Sunday, May 31, 2009
I wonder if she resented it. Her beauty that is. After all, that’s ultimately what took her away from the only remaining family member this young woman had left. And speaking of family, did she ever question why her parents died when she was so young? Did she wonder how much more she’d have to [...]
Continue reading...An Unexpected Love Story
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Mother-in-law. The words are enough to send chills up spines and cause many to tell harrowing stories. Is there ever a story to be told about mother-in-laws, but it’s not what we’d expect. In an incomprehensible act of events, Ruth leaves her family, homeland, gods, customs and traditions to follow her deceased husband’s mother, Naomi. [...]
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
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