Deb Wolf's Blog

Have you ever stopped to consider that God’s command to “be still” is important for both our faith and health? It’s interesting how the health and medical experts have started stressing the importance of finding time for rest and stillness in our lives. We shouldn’t be surprised. God told us to take a Sabbath Day...

Do you find it hard to resist the enemy? Have you ever noticed how he seems to attack the areas where God is working and helping you grow? I recently reread The Jesus Creed, by Scot McKnight. His challenge to begin and end each day with the Shema, the sacred prayer and ultimate declaration of...

Do you struggle to make the most of today because thoughts about tomorrow keep getting in the way? When our daughter was a little girl, she struggled to understand the concept of time and the difference between today and tomorrow. For example, if we told her… “We’re going to __________ tomorrow.” Like most littles, she’d...

What do you do when you’re frustrated and need more patience? I’ve found a challenge that I believe will help us all. Norman Vincent Peale wrote… “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”  I’m not sure I completely agree with him, but I do believe that changing our thoughts can adjust our attitudes, and...

The alarm goes off, and you can’t believe it’s morning already. You spent a restless night thinking about yesterday’s challenges, and today doesn’t look like it’s going to be much better. You feel overwhelmed, unfit, and you need extra strength. I don’t believe I’ve had a morning lately when I haven’t asked the Lord to...

What if I told you it’s time to stop hiding? My “Gram” used to call it “putting her face on.”. Concealer, foundation, blush, shadow, eyeliner, mascara, and lip gloss. Makeup. I refuse to leave the house without it. I even wore mascara into surgery once because I couldn’t face anyone, even my surgeons, barefaced. I know,...

Is it hard for you to surrender your painful memories? A photo. A smell. A melody. Almost anything can spark a memory and its corresponding emotion. We each carry around a sack full of emotional memories, and the truth is, our memories have the power to make us smile or bring us to tears. Everyone...

As you might imagine, I spend a lot of time thinking about words. And I’ve been thinking about the importance of having strong and healthy conversations if we want to have strong and healthy relationships. The words we choose can too often erode the edges of our friendships and families … until there’s little to nothing...

Have you started celebrating America 250? It’s a blessing to live in a nation that was founded on the following… We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness....

On a scale of 1 to 10 – If 1 is proud (completely self-focused) and 10 is humble (completely God and others focused), where would you fall? Proud  1       2      3      4      5     6      7     8      9      10...