I woke up still wrestling with the issue of where God wanted me to be. The undercurrent from church leadership was growing.  We just finished a summer of great Holy Spirit encounters, but it wasn’t meeting church approval.  The questions loomed. “If You are leading us to freedom, Father, I sure don’t see it happening … Continue reading What to do When God Pulls You Out of the Party

I could hear the phone ringing before I unlocked the office door. I grabbed the keys and added my purse to the pile of books and files already in my arms.  As I fumbled through the door, the message machine finished it’s warm greeting.  Then a pleasant voice said, “This is Sheri from Detroit. Please … Continue reading Sometimes We Get Lost in the Blessings and Forget God’s Ways

We muddled through the next year. How do you restore shattered trust? All of my efforts to be a perfect wife clouded my true identity. We’d been married for twenty-one years. Who was I? In all honesty, I didn’t know. I also destroyed Mike’s image of who I was. He thought I was perfect.  He … Continue reading The Beginning of the Long Road Back

Forty years of journals sit on my bookshelves.  Only one year is missing—1985.  There was too much pain, too much guilt.  I burned them. Now, many years later, I wish I had them. The hard lessons learned forever chiseled and molded my life. In the years since God’s hand of mercy erased words spoken and … Continue reading The Only Year I Burned My Journals