Lynn Donovan
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Hallmark Holiday
I originally posted this last year but I find it needs a re-read by me and I hope you will enjoy it again this year. I pray it helps and encourages many of you who struggle with Valentine's Day. Love and hugs, Lynn Tomorrow is such a strange day. Valentine’s Day! This day could make…
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How do you stay connected?
Greetings this Festive Friday Everyone: Well I understand many of you are blanketed in snow up to your eyebrows. Burrrr Look at this amazing photo taken just outside of Washington DC on Thursday morning by a work colleague of my husbands. I am inspired to praise God for His majesty! Awesome! PRAISE YOU JESUS! Sigh, so pretty. Okay,…
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Thankful Thursday – Great News!
Let us give thanks. It is Thankful Thursday. We are meeting this month with Iris of Grace Alone and in March we will be at Laurie's place, Women Taking A Stand. Find Thankful Thursday back here in April. Did you hear the great news? Jesus lives! Did you hear the other great news? Because He lives, we have…
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What do you Struggle With in your “Uniquely” Yoked Marriage?
Hi Everybody, Wondering if y’all could help me again…. You were awesome a week ago when you shared your thoughts in this post. I heart you! I am thinking I have never written down the unique struggles that unequally yoked spouses face. So, I thought I would ask. This may be a tough assignment because…
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Why is it always me?
Today, I am thrilled to introduce one of my very dear friends, Marsha Harwood. Many of you know Marsha as she is a profound blogger in our community. I met Marsha face-to-face in October at the blogger's retreat. However, I feel like I have been her sister for many years. She loves Jesus. I just…
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Marriage Monday – He Still Makes My Heart Melt
Hi, It's Marriage Monday. This month the readers and contributors to Marriage Monday at Chrysalis chose this topic for our community: How to Celebrate February 14 Every Day of the Year. It’s early Sunday afternoon and I am sitting at the kitchen table with my laptop. Across from me sits my husband with his laptop.…
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It’s NOT About Me. Unanswered Prayer
It’s a rainy Thursday afternoon. I just sat down to pray and write about unanswered prayers. I have to say that Dineen summed up this subject in a brilliant post on Tuesday. Scroll down to read it. It is awesome. I wonder if you are like me, we ask, “Lord, what is it that we…
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Thankful Thursday – A Ratty Mess!
Let us give thanks. It is Thankful Thursday. January I’m am privileged to be hosting this awesome event. Next month we are meeting with Iris of Grace Alone and in March we will be back at Laurie’s place, Women Taking A Stand. I am a tad surly today. Bear with.. The best of plans sometimes go awry. And…
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Chronicles of the Donovan Clan. The Update
Well it’s been a while since I posted an update to the Donovan Chronicles. Many of you have emailed, asking how my husband’s new job was working out. Let me give a quick review of the past 12 months for all the new readers here at Spiritually Unequal Marriage. Also, welcome to our new friends…
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Unanswered Prayers – He Dreams Big, Do You?
I just sat down to write about unanswered prayers. I am listening to a radio station, KLOV, through Itunes Radio. A new song just started playing. Your Hands by JJ Heller. You can find the lyrics below. How amazing, God would send this song right now. The first line in her song is, I have unanswered…
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Another Beginning It’s Scary, Passionate and all about Jesus. Gotta Read this one!
Hi Lynn and Dineen here! We have a story to tell you. And as always then we need your help. Many of you who have joined us on this strange and unexpected journey of unequallyokedome, may not know how Spiritually Unequal Marriage was started. So, today we want to tell you about the beginning. This…
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Thankful Thursday – The Fellowship of the Unashamed
Let us give thanks. It is Thankful Thursday. January I'm am privileged to be hosting this awesome event. Next month we are meeting with Iris of Grace Alone and in March we will be back at Laurie's place, Women Taking A Stand. This week an email arrived with an astonishing and powerful prayer from my BFF, Angie Knight,…
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All You Need To Do Is Ask
We have not because we ask not. How many times have we needed God but have been too stubborn to open our mouths and just say so? How many crazy situations have we found ourselves in, only to discover that if we had just spoken up and been honest about our need of help or…
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Thankful Thursday – Can I be thankful for THAT?
Let us give thanks. It is Thankful Thursday. December we are meeting at Women Taking A Stand. In January we will be giving thanks in the new year, right here at Spiritually Unequal Marriage. I can't wait. _____ Wow, the last day of 2009. What a year it has been. Many of you have shared the fantastic and divinely…
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I Have a Serious Question for You.
Are you ready for healing? Do you think as Christians most of the time we think of heavenly healing as a cure of a physical ailment? I believe we do and I know God miraculously heals people of physical sickness and disease. I also know God heals us from their emotional and mental injuries. What…
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Charlie Brown? Hope of the World.
I grew up waiting each Christmas season for two special TV shows to appear on our old television set. Yes, I grew up in the “Dark Ages”, according to my teenager. There weren’t video recordings nor hundreds of channels with millions of re-runs. You had one chance, once a year. That was it. I anxiously…
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Thankful Thursday – It’s a Birthday
Let us give thanks. It is Thankful Thursday. December we are meeting at Women Taking A Stand. In January we will be giving thanks in the new year, right here at Spiritually Unequal Marriage. I can't wait. Okay, I’m a dork. Go ahead a poke fun if you must, I own up to my dorkiness… (is that a word?) …
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Trust AND Action!
I don’t subscribe to the old adage; God helps those who help themselves. I am acutely aware the Lord helps many of us when we are so low we can’t even get off the couch. But, I am also certain God wants our active participation in His plans. With that said what does it mean…
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A Crazy and Busy Donovan Clan
Hi Everyone: Wow, what happened to this week? INSANELY BUSY doesn’t adequately describe the first two weeks of December in the lives of the Donovan Clan. But, it’s all good. Tonight my church, Sunridge Community Church, Women’s Ministry will host over 500 women as an outreach event. I told you a little about this yesterday.…
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Thankful Thursday – Church Women’s Ministry
Let us give thanks. It is Thankful Thursday. December we are meeting at Women Taking A Stand. This Friday our church will host Sarah Kelly, Grammy nominated entertainer, at our annual Christmas Dessert. This event is the pinnacle of our women’s ministry at my church. The first Friday of every December our worship center is transformed. Tables are…
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Chronicles of the Donovan Clan – It’s Time
It’s time to bring the Lord Jesus Christ glory. Please honor Him along with me as I give Him all of my worship. I am a humbled, ordinary wife who serves an extraordinary God. I am privileged to have a front row seat to watch the Creator of the universe, vividly active in the lives…