Sharon JaynesDealing with Your Past, Forgiveness, General Inspiration, Living Free, Motherhood 95 Comments

Getting Out of God’s Way

 

He ironed. I watched.

I stood in the door frame of my guest room, watching my nephew, Jonathan, iron the wrinkles out of his crumpled shirt – the rumpled creases out of his crumpled heart.

He ironed and talked. I watched and listened.

Jonathan, my twenty-seven-year-old nephew, stopped by for a visit on his way to a wedding in my hometown.  Read more…

Sharon JaynesDealing with Your Past, Dreams of a Woman, Forgiveness, General Inspiration, Living Free, Living Fully, Trusting God 108 Comments

What To Do With a Broken Dream

 

I’ve been thinking about broken dreams lately.

We’ve all got them. Just different ones.

So what are you going to do with yours?

[tweetherder]Could it be that God is waiting for you to give Him the broken pieces of your shattered dreams so that He can make a beautiful mosaic from them?[/tweetherder]

Could it be that you are clinging tightly to the shards and refusing to let them go?  Read more…

Sharon JaynesConfidence in Christ, Dealing with Your Past, Dreams of a Woman, Expectant Living, General Inspiration, Living Fully 64 Comments

A Little Something Bagger Vance Taught Me

 

I was sitting in a darkened theater watching the movie Bagger Vance.  Now I know the theology wasn’t correct, but one scene caused tears to stream down my cheeks.  It was during a time when I was struggling with what God was calling me to do with my life.

Here’s how the story goes:

As a young man,  Read more…

Sharon JaynesGeneral Inspiration, Living Free 99 Comments

A Sucker for Sin

I have often heard the phrase, “A picture paints a thousand words.” So today, instead of writing a thousand words, I’m just going to write a few. I’m going to let the picture do all the talking.

A friend of mine from El Paso, Texas,  gave me this sucker as a souvenir from her hometown. It was supposed to be a joke,  Read more…

Sharon JaynesExpectant Living, General Inspiration, Living Free, Living Fully 10 Comments

When Insecurity Gets Your Down

 (Beginning August 1, the content of my blog will be completely different from the Girlfriends in God devotions. So if you are not signed up for my blog at www.localhost/sjold, please do it today…and invite all your friends. We’re going to have more give-a-ways, more personal interaction, and more inspiration than ever before!)

Speaking of winners. The 3 winners of a copy of my latest book written with Gwen Smith and Mary Southerland,    Read more…

Sharon JaynesA Sudden Glory, Dealing with Your Past, General Inspiration, God's love, Trusting God 61 Comments

God, Where Are You?

(Beginning August 1, the content of my blog will be completely different from the Girlfriends in God devotions. So if you are not signed up for my blog at www.localhost/sjold, please do it today…and invite all your friends. We’re going to have more give-a-ways, more personal interaction, and more inspiration than ever before! Now, on to today’s post!) 

“In all their distress he too was distressed,” (Isaiah 63:9 NIV).  Read more…