Share Saturday – Heather

This week’s Share Saturday is a very tender story from one of our alumni, Heather.  Heather has been such a joy to know better and I love to be in her lively presence!  This post is a great introduction to the idea of how God can really use the physical world around us to show…

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The Leading Lady

“What e’er thou art, act well thy part.” -Shakespeare “Saw Cinderella in a party dress, but she was looking for a night gown.  I saw the devil wrapping up his hands, he’s getting ready for the showdown.” -Dustland Fairytale, The Killers “For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time,…thou and thy father’s house…

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Share Saturday – Breanne

This Saturday’s message comes from our beautiful team member Breanne.  I’ve loved getting to know Breanne, and working with her in the months leading up to our retreats.  Today Breanne offers us some tips on how to keep our connection fully alive with God!  Take it away Breanne! How can we keep connection with God…

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With Gratitude

  “And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.” Genesis 28:16 Have you ever lived through a deep and long, lonely battle?  I’m laughing right now, after I finished typing that sentence, because it’s so absurd to ask.  Who here on…

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It’s Share Saturday!

Welcome to Share Saturday here at The Heart of a Woman blog!  Each Saturday, we’ll be able to read about the way that the message of Heart of a Woman has changed the way we live!  How have our hearts changed, and how do our actions change because of that? This first message comes from…

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Consider the State of Your Heart

Life hurts. In the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip, a young blacksmith apprentice is summoned to a large manor house by the great lady who lives there.  When he enters the house, everything is covered in dust and cobwebs.  The lady is dressed in a bridal gown once white, but now yellowed with age…

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Your Priceless Heart

 The summer I was 7 or 8 years old, I discovered a hiding place in our front yard.  Between the tall green bush and the cool brick exterior of our house, there was a hollowed out space and a brick ledge that I could sit on, out of the sun, and just daydream, and no…

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