When I think of discipline I think of punishment. Discipline is a consequence of bad decisions, mistakes, behaviors that are wrong. Discipline means loss of privileges or having something you enjoy withheld from you. For me, discipline is something to be avoided. However, in my new pursuit of a disciplined lifestyle, I am beginning to…
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One Word 2011 recap and 2012 preview
This time last year I wrote a post about Passion 2011 and my One Word for 2011: Courage. I’m not sure I did a very good job writing blog posts about courage last year; but as I look back over the year I do see glimpses of courage amidst all the major life changes that…
Going All In = Major Life Changes!
Last month I wrote about going “all in” with God. This month I want to tell you what going “all in” has looked like for us over the last several weeks. The week of my birthday, two life changing things happened in the Walters household. Brian, my seminary graduate husband, was offered a job in…
This Year I Am Going ALL IN
Today is my birthday. Today I am 34 years old. I really don’t feel 34. I feel somewhere between 28 and 30, honestly. But alas, one cannot change one’s age or turn back the wheels of time, so I am willingly settling into my mid thirties today with quiet confidence that this is going to…
Thirteen Years of Passion
In 1998, while a college student at Union University, I traveled to Texas with a group of about 200 other Union students to attend Passion 98. This was a gathering of college students over New Years who wanted to learn more about God and grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. Alot of my friends…
Permission to Speak Freely {Book Review}
It has been a while since I have submitted a book review for all of you here on My Living Canvas. This is not from lack of reading, just lack of having the discipline to sit down and pound out a review! So I am pleased to make a book review comeback with my review…
How to Have a Marriage Without Regret
I am a conservative. I am sure that any regular readers of this blog are already thinking “tell me something I don’t already know!” But I say this because, I feel that as of late I have come to be a little more conservative than I have ever been. I’m not talking politics, or social…
Kids Rapping about Jesus
Our church has a ministry called DayBreak that works with children in Southeast Washington, DC providing tutoring, mentoring and other development opportunities for children in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood. One of their recent activities included writing rap songs about Jesus. I think this is just awesome. What praise! I love it. I hope you do,…
Thoughts on Newness
My friend Jenny asked me to do a guest post on her blog about “newness.” Jenny is on a mission trip in Africa and planned ahead to have several women bloggers write on this subject during the time she is away. Today, I’m up to bat. I would love you to go to her blog…
Happy Anniversary Hubble
I admit, I am kind of a space nerd. Actually I am pretty fascinated by anything in the sky, falling from the sky, that can only be seen through high powered telescopes and other devices. This includes weather events, meteor showers, aurora boralias, and of course all things beyond Earth’s atmosphere. So today I was…
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