Time stealers
Have you ever had to deal with time stealers? You know, those things that take away our dreams. Those things that are small, but actually take chunks of time without giving much back. . .
Kim Ketola Show
Tuesday I got to hang out with Kim Jeffries Ketola to discuss mentoring twentysomething women and my book, The Woman I Am Becoming. I loved this show! Thank you, Kim, for allowing me to be a small part of your radio program, Along the Way.
You can find out more about Kim at KimsCafe.org.
Parenting w/o the baggage
I visited with Jeff and Lee KKMS live at AM980 KKMS radio in Minneapolis/St. Paul at 5 CT. If you are visiting after that interview, I’m glad you stopped by.
Jeff and Lee asked some great questions about parenting without the baggage of the past.
Let’s look at one of those. . . (more…)
This is my hopeGod’s fulness will flow through he tiniest channel that faith opens out on his almighty power. Faith is the open heart towards him, and through the channel of faith Christ lives in and through us. It is not what we do but what God does through us, that counts; and his mighty power, passing through the tiniest aperture of faith, keeps hollowing it wider. –F.B. Meyer
Wedding bells
My son is getting married this weekend. My guest bedroom is filled with blue tulle, candles, snow-white tablecloths, and programs. All the details are falling place. The weather is beautiful. 72 degrees.
I’ll love the day, but I also love what this means. A new life for Ryan and Kristin.
This is what I hope for them: (more…)
Thought for the dayLet go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.” - Rhonda Britten, founder of the Fearless Living Institute
Gloria’s Story - IIGloria’s story continues from yesterday. If you would like to share your story, send an e-mail to Suzie.
Gloria’s story - Part II
After trying so hard to be good and trouble free for my mother I rebelled after I graduated from high school.
I had enlisted in the United States Air Force and was due to go in November. I had a few months to kill. I got a summer job and ‘met a guy’.
How quickly I forgot about my ambitions in life. When it was time for me to go into boot camp for the Air Force I was ready to make a hasty decision to marry this man. (more…)
Gloria’s StoryI was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. I was born the second of twin girls. My parents were both full blood Sioux Indians. My father was from the Oglala Sioux Nation and my mother a Rosebud Sioux.
Up in those parts even though each is a band of the Sioux Tribe, some of the people don’t get along. So my parents relationship was like that of the Montague and Capulet’s in Shakespear’s Romeo and Juliet. None of the women in my father’s family could tolerate my fathers love for my mother. Not only was she beautiful; she was a ‘Rosebud’.
And to my mother’s parents my father was never good enough for her. Much of that had to do with the fact that my mother’s father was a minister. And my father came from a family that was known for their ferocity and willingness to fight… (more…)
Interview: Pastor Rudy, Touch! IIToday we continue the interview with Pastor Rudy, author of Touch, pastor of St. Johns, and advocate for faith that intersects with a real world.
Suzie: Your father later came to your church and his life was changed. What would you say to teens or adults who live out their faith, but whose parents don’t agree with their new life?
Pastor Rudy: My dad taught me to “never trust preachers and church people.” He would go to say that they were all full of S_ _ _.
He was a graphic communicator with a very well placed esteem and courage to speak his own truth as if the world bowed to it. When I first began my dad told his friends that he had “lost me to God” as if he was in competition to keep me from getting to God, but what he really meant was in the cryptic code. (more…)
Interview: Pastor Rudy, Touch!
The Pastor Rudy Experience
Pastor Rudy’s blogToday & tomorrow’s interview is with a pastor making a difference in the toughest streets of Houston, TX. He is the author of Touch: Pressing Against the Wounds of a Broken World . He has joined with Beyonce in a global anti-hunger initiative. He found God while working with his father in what he calls a borderline bordello. I hope you enjoy the interview with Pastor Rudy.
Suzie: I want to thank you for joining us on Dare to Believe. I read your book, Touch. When you became a believer, you were running a different type of business with your father. What did God show you in the midst of that environment?
Pastor Rudy: There were many lessons learned in our little “Borderline Bordello.” (more…)
T. Suzanne Eller
Believing that God redeems our life stories, Suzanne teaches you how to give every chapter of your life to a relevant and life-changing Savior.
