Diane W. Bailey

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  • My Soul Thirsts

    Linking with Deidra Riggs and Sandra Heska King, and the Kennedy Adventures

  • Get Freed Up!

    As you know by now Friday with Lisa-Jo Baker and her Five Minute Friday is one of my favorite activities! Today she has challenged us to write about one of my FAVORITE activities – DANCING! I don’t think there will be much spiritual wisdom here today. But just to share a little more about who…continue reading…

  • Push Through the Pain

    “So, did you faint the first time you saw a body cut into?” I asked my surgeon friend. “Almost”, he replied. “The nurses gave me a stool to sit on until I could pull myself together.  It was a hysterectomy, and I was in pre-med.” “Now I can cut without a problem because I know…continue reading…

  • Hitting the Brick Wall

    Are there days when you just need to cry.  Nothing is wrong, nothing out of the ordinary, but the need to cry is there.  It is like hitting a brick wall that you cannot get past! I do not fully understand why this happens.  Perhaps it is hormones, or melancholy, or lack of sleep; or…continue reading…

  • Copper Rose

    Tink, tink, tink tink, Boom, Boom! A rhythmic percussion of hammer to copper is heard over sounds of laughter and conversations. Metal heated then pounded into a creation of purpose.  The instructor with a long white beard and cowboy hat is holding with tongs the metal, glowing orange and red from the white-hot fire at…continue reading…

  • How to Lean Correctly

    Writing is so very challenging at times.  This week I’m feeling great pressure to get my five-minute talk ready for the Proverbs 31 conference. Trying to find one topic that I can teach with meaning, that will bless the listener, whether they like my style or not. So I started with Trust – look up…continue reading…