Diane O'Connor
- Jan 22, 2022
- 2 min
Unique as a Snowflake
It's snowing this morning—large flakes floating down lazily from the sky. I sat and watched for awhile, mesmerized by the peacefulness of...
Diane O'Connor
- Jan 16, 2022
- 4 min
Build Community
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...
Diane O'Connor
- Jan 16, 2022
- 3 min
Win the Battle — 2: Recognize His Strategy
SATAN ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY THREE ESSENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS In Part 1 I reminded us that we have an enemy that works to divide and conquer....
Diane O'Connor
- Jan 16, 2022
- 5 min
Win the Battle - 1 : Recognize the Real Enemy
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...
Diane O'Connor
- Jan 13, 2022
- 3 min
Little Yellow House
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,...
Diane O'Connor
- Apr 28, 2021
- 3 min
Which Way Will You Influence?
You influence others. You influence at home, and in your circle of contacts—at work or school, formally or informally. At the most basic...
Diane O'Connor
- Apr 28, 2021
- 3 min
Why Aren't They?
These days I can feel myself getting a little defensive when people start pointing fingers at pastors, asking, “Why aren’t they teaching...
Diane O'Connor
- Apr 24, 2021
- 4 min
Changing Culture, One Heart at a Time
It is PRAYER that shifts atmospheres and changes culture! And it happens from the inside-out, one heart at a time. Everything around us...
Diane O'Connor
- Apr 24, 2021
- 4 min
Resurrected Dreams
After I became a Christ-follower, I desperately wanted to clarify my calling and serve the Lord with everything I had. I began thinking...
Diane O'Connor
- Apr 24, 2021
- 3 min
Inside-Out
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...
Diane O'Connor
- Apr 18, 2021
- 5 min
Handling Conflict
Handling Conflict - A Key to Healthy Relationships I asked myself,"Who should I be leading?," and then I boxed in five leadership domains...
Diane O'Connor
- Jan 15, 2021
- 4 min
Sifting Through Chaos - January, 2021
TUMBLING AROUND MY HEAD THESE PAST WEEKS AND MONTHS WERE THE WORDS, "INFORMATION WAR." Truly—have you ever seen so much information...
Diane O'Connor
- Jan 3, 2021
- 2 min
Three Life Lessons From a Poppy Painting
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...
Diane O'Connor
- Dec 31, 2020
- 3 min
Yo-Yo? Or Railroad Tracks?
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...
Diane O'Connor
- Dec 25, 2020
- 2 min
Monochromatic Birches
Above: Monochromatic Birches - Mixed Media on a 20 x 24 stretched canvas. Below: Golden Grove, 18 x 24 - Another piece created using the...
Diane O'Connor
- Nov 13, 2020
- 2 min
Daisies & Delphs
This fall the colors faded fast, the temperature dipped, and everything became very dark and gray much earlier than usual —it even...
Diane O'Connor
- Oct 22, 2020
- 3 min
Shalom in the Chaos
"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...
Diane O'Connor
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
A Different Way to Help — 2: Exploring Solutions
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...
Diane O'Connor
- Sep 27, 2020
- 5 min
A Different Way to Help — 1: The Dilemma
There's a lot of talk right now about "need" and "systems being broken." I see many good-willed people scrambling to understand and...
Diane O'Connor
- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
Comma
One day on the Sabbath Jesus stood up in the temple to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it he found...