DIANE O'CONNOR

In the spring of 2024, I took a class called, “Loose Tulips” with Ali Kay. (alikaystudio.com)

It's snowing this morning—large flakes floating down lazily from the sky. I sat and watched for awhile, mesmerized by the peacefulness of...

A FOCUS FOR 2022 As 2021 was coming to a close, I was asking the Lord to show me what I should focus on as we entered 2022. I kept...

SATAN ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY THREE ESSENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS In Part 1 I reminded us that we have an enemy that works to divide and conquer....

RECOGNIZE THE ENEMY SO YOU CAN DEFEAT HIM Right now it seems that there are conflicts everywhere we turn. We have an enemy that works to...

A Story of Transformation "If I were a house I’d be a little yellow house, with gables, a white spindled porch, cascading flower boxes,...

You influence others. You influence at home, and in your circle of contacts—at work or school, formally or informally. At the most basic...

These days I can feel myself getting a little defensive when people start pointing fingers at pastors, asking, “Why aren’t they teaching...

It is PRAYER that shifts atmospheres and changes culture! And it happens from the inside-out, one heart at a time. Everything around us...

After I became a Christ-follower, I desperately wanted to clarify my calling and serve the Lord with everything I had. I began thinking...

INSIDE OUT ART PRINT by Kerri Rosenthal "Inside-out" is a theme in my life. Over the years, God has woven inside-out thinking into the...

Handling Conflict - A Key to Healthy Relationships I asked myself,"Who should I be leading?," and then I boxed in five leadership domains...

TUMBLING AROUND MY HEAD THESE PAST WEEKS AND MONTHS WERE THE WORDS, "INFORMATION WAR." Truly—have you ever seen so much information...

BLUE VASE POPPIES, MIXED MEDIA ACRYLIC, 16 x 20 Life Lesson 1: If you do not like the direction life is going, try changing your...

We may often feel like the journey of our lives is full of "highs and lows," or "best and worst experiences." I've often heard the...

Above: Monochromatic Birches - Mixed Media on a 20 x 24 stretched canvas. Below: Golden Grove, 18 x 24 - Another piece created using the...

This fall the colors faded fast, the temperature dipped, and everything became very dark and gray much earlier than usual —it even...

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let...

In Part 1: The Dilemma, I concluded that we live in a world of urgent physical, emotional, and spiritual need—and we desperately want to...

There's a lot of talk right now about "need" and "systems being broken." I see many good-willed people scrambling to understand and...