Entries by Thistlebend Admin

Arise my Love

by Angie Thomas I was re-reading the lecture notes from Laurie’s teaching from last Tuesday night and was moved again as I read her words: Today, this week, open yourself to receive God’s immeasurable, unending, unconditional love for you.  Make Him your only ambition, your infatuation, your All In All.  May He be your EVERYTHING. […]

Choose to Stand

by Susan Sampson “Each day as a mother, you have a choice to make.  Are you going to follow your own desires, the world, your fears, or will you follow the Lord?  The choices you make will influence the choices your children make.” — from Falling in Love Again with Your Children “Among them we […]

Reconnecting with our First Love

by Dottie Ryan “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.  And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart” (Deut. 6:4-6). He is our First Love!  He must […]