Living Above the Sun Ministries

  Where do I begin?  For many years I've quietly dreamed of being in the world of music...okay, I want to be a rockstar!  Only problem is I'm an introvert and not big on being in the limelight.  I'm also not as musically talented as I am a writer.  Sure, I can strum a couple of chords, and sing and harmonize on some things, I can sorta ad lib, but when it comes to keeping time, and singing really good, and staying in rhythm, I don't do well.  I choke on my spit, get off key, I get lost in music, the metronome keeps ticking and i don't know where to jump in.  I've known for years I'm a writer and not a performance singer. I recently took a test from a Dove winning songwriter who developed a "Songwriter Type Profile."  I am "Hearing and Prophetic."  I've known this for probably 20 years too, but most people would think I was crazy if I told them I hear the voice of God and have the gift of prophecy.  Not seeing the future prophecy but p...

“See what great love  the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!  And that is what we are!” 1 John 3:1 Sunday I made the kids (3 boys 11, 11, and 4) PBJs after we played at the park. The 11 year old was asking the 4 year old if I was his favorite. He responded with “sorta.” The 4 year old doesn’t know, who ever is in front of him is probably his favorite. The 11 year old yelled at me in the kitchen that the 4 year old shouldn’t get a sandwich since I’m “sorta” his favorite. I yelled back at the 11 year old from the kitchen as I spread the jelly and peanut butter “That’s not how love works!!” There was silence. Silence because God’s true love that is undeserved is lavishly poured out, and it doesn’t depend on anything about me other than He loves me, and you, and the 11 year old prodding for favoritism, and the 4 year old who’s thankful just for “Halloween and Christmas” (i.e. presents and candy) as we voiced things we were thankful for on the ride...

Coming home last weekend from a visit to family in Tennessee, my heart was so heavy with all sorts of burdens.  Tears escaped my eyes all day.  On the ride down the mountain I was quiet as my brother drove, every once in a while a tear dripping down my cheek.  I didn't want to feel all of  this, I had been silently crying at my desk that week anticipating the visit.  My anxiety and panic was through the roof, I announced, "I'm not going."  But I had to go, I'm in the Lord's Army.  So here I was, serving my family in a difficult situation and fully loving them with all my heart and emotions.  I wrapped my arms around them, and I loved them right where they were.  I couldn't speak, just tears. God reached down to me and comforted my heart with a song, and on the mountain I penned... "God Loves me in my darkness, and calls me to His light, He is reaching out for me, bringing me back to His side.  God loves me in my failures, and calls me to...

  "For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.  For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man."  Matthew 24:37-39 I tried to write on Cain, Able and Seth, but I have more questions than I do answers.  I also ended up doing a study on the biblical theological idea of "carpology," the study of seeds.  Genesis (and the whole Bible) is full of references of seeds.  Very interesting study.  A main thing I gathered regarding Cain is that he was a "bad seed."  He did not have the seed of righteousness in him as Able and as Seth...yeah!  Quite the rabbit hole to go down.  So moving on to Noah after deep thought of beginnings.   I read this a few nights ago and it was such a blessing to me and helped my mind ...

 “Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.” Romans 5:20 Last year, 2025, I read the entire Bible with the Bible Recap reading plan. I read the New Testament with that plan in 2024 and resolved I would do the whole plan January 1, and I did! Some of my favorite readings were in the Kings and Chronicles. More on that in another post.  I wanted to capture this journey through the Bible. It’s a totally different plan it is not cover to cover but as the title suggests, Chronological Order AND thematic. So we jump around from Old Testament to New. I don’t think a lot of believers have ever read their Bible cover to cover. Many reject the Old Testament because it “doesn’t apply.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Leviticus will absolutely bless you when you read it through the lens of our Savior. I fell in love with the Old Testament last year and how beautiful it truly is.  Without rambling on, you can find this reading on YouVersion Bible App. Let’s connect and...

" The Lord   God   has given   me  the tongue of those who are taught,  that   I may know how to sustain with a word  him who is weary.   Morning by morning he awakens;   he awakens my ear   to hear as those who are taught." Isaiah 50:4 Be the end of the year, which is just a couple more weeks, I will complete my first Bible in a Year plan!  While I have read the entire Bible in 90 Days years ago, I haven't ever (that I can remember) read it all the way through and pondered.  When I finished the Old Testament I loved it so much I immediately started another Bible in a year plan so I could start again and refresh the Old Testament while I go through the New Testament.  At the moment I am reading Isaiah and Romans.  I've loved every word of the Old Testament, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, the battles in Kings and Chronicles, the words of the prophets.  I have found His Word as treasure, and I often think how sad tha...