Friendship is meant to enrich your life, its meant to build you up and fortify you against the harsh elements of the world. God designed relationship / friendship. He is the author of it all. We are meant to gather together, sharpen each other and lift each other up. Thankfully our friendship has grown sweeter over the years and even though we don’t live close in proximity to each other when we do get together it is like we were never apart.
I came across this piece in the memories timeline I had written and posted to social media over six years ago. It was written during a time I was attempting to traverse the loss of several precious people in my tribe. Loneliness, grief, and a loss of joy had taken root in my being. I… Continue reading Through the Valley of Winter
As a little girl and young woman I use to dream a lot. Most nights I would wake from a dream attempting to scream or scared out of my mind because of what I had experienced in the dream. Some nights I would stay up just so I would not have to dream. I know now where… Continue reading A Love that Never Fails
Today I will fight. I will fight fatigue. I will fight boredom. I will fight apathy. I will fight complacency and procrastination. I will fight against the fiery arrows of the wicked one that threatens my faith in the redeemer. I will fight the urge to quit, give in and give up. I will fight for my family, for… Continue reading I will fight
Our family went on vacation just this past week. We were in desperate need of a recharge and reconnect. Our lives had been full of busy since the last time we stopped to go anywhere and we were feeling like weary travelers in a foreign land. My husband made a recent change in his ministry… Continue reading Beach lessons
I’ve prayed about this whole unity thing for a while now. What does it mean? How do we get there from here? Can one person make a difference? Cause a revival of unity? and on and on the questions go; till I felt overwhelmed with the task. Thankfully God made me a big picture person. He… Continue reading Seeing the bigger picture
I usually woke early way before the others who would serve that day. My essentials gathered : coffee, devotional and bible. I sat between the rising sun and the setting moon. I needed to meet with God to try to make sense of what I was feeling and seeing. Try reconcile old with new and allow God’s presence… Continue reading As light pushes back the dark
Men, today I am writing to you. I wont’ fill this post with statistics that state how important your role in the home is or what kind of kids will be produced if their father is not involved in their lives. Today I write a challenge to you. I write this challenge from me to you; because I was one… Continue reading A challenge to men
On the third trip to the pool store hearing the same question for the third time, “Is your water green or blue” Is it cloudy or clear”? I was a bit miffed. Actually, miffed would be an understatement for how I felt at that moment. I had taken in sample after sample of water for testing and… Continue reading Is your water green or blue?
A dear friend made me a cross stitch saying and had it framed and sent to me a number of years ago. She did it at a time when I was struggling to move out of a deep well of grief and despair I had found myself in after a particularly hard season in life. I… Continue reading Looking back to look ahead
by Melanie McKinley
Sharing the melodies in my heart
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by Melanie McKinley
by Melanie McKinley
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