by Gail Dudley | Apr 16, 2020 | 2020, Prayer
I’ve lost track of the number of days I made the decision to follow the guidelines and submit to the Stay at Home orders given by Governor Mike DeWine. Has it been three weeks? Four? Seven? I honestly do not know, but there’s no need to panic. Yea, I wish it were that...
by Gail Dudley | Apr 11, 2020 | 2020, Prayer
COVID-19 brings a different kind of Easter weekend for me and many others around the world. For me, because of a preexisting condition, I am unable to find myself in a church building gathered with others in a sanctuary, but I am wrapped in a wool shawl looking at a...
by Gail Dudley | Mar 21, 2020 | 2020, Ministry, Prayer
I am never short on words. However, in the last several weeks, I find myself challenged with emotions and the inability to be able to communicate as I learn of innocent people dying and those who are being isolated through self-quarantine or under the shelter-in-place...
by Gail Dudley | Feb 27, 2020 | 2020, Ministry, Prayer
The season of Lent has begun. For whatever reason, I hear the Lord pressing me with a sense of urgency to take seriously His call to come and steal away with Him to a quiet place. My time in prayer with Jesus the morning of Ash Wednesday was some kind of sweet. It was...
by Gail Dudley | Jan 24, 2020 | 2020, Authority, Do Something, Empty-Nest, Husbands, Marriage, Ministry, Prayer, Uncategorized, When You Don't Know What To Do, wives, Women
It’s not often that I wake with prayers rolling off the tip of my tongue. Name after name and married couples after married couples were lifted to Jesus. Still dark in my room, I stumbled to the bathroom to begin my day. The shower temperature took forever to...
by Gail Dudley | Jan 13, 2020 | 2020, Do Something, Ministry, Prayer, Uncategorized, When You Don't Know What To Do
I breathe. I can hear my heartbeat. I can see the leaves blowing on the tree that is sitting right outside my window. I am able to focus on the birds chirping. Yes, even though it is winter, but I live in Ohio. Never know what type of weather we will receive. I...