A Day of Celebration? As I celebrate my son’s 40th birthday today, I think about my nephew who was five weeks older than my son. He met a tragic death when he was only twenty. As my brother thinks about his son being gone for twenty years, I contemplate...
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How Can We Have Peace? What does it mean to be blameless? It appears to be someone who lives a life that does not provide any fault to be found in the way they live. What would that look like? I would see a very positive person; someone that...
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We all want the magic formula, to have a worry free life. I thought this was an impossibility after my husband died. I searched for answers in the bottle; it was not at the bottom; I combed for them in busyness, and there was no rest; and, I then chose...
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Nutrition for Life Extension I opened my mail today to find a catalog addressed to my father-in-law who passed away five years ago. It was advertising “Life Extension” through the use of their vitamins and herbal remedies. I had to think that his life has already been extended into...
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“Joy” a word that seems so distant when you are in the midst of grief. How can joy exist when your heart is breaking? Joy is a supernatural gift from God. Joy comes when we are aware of His grace and delight in His favor. It can only exist through...
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What is Your Priority? Our circumstances can shape our priorities. A woman who is engaged to be married may have all her attention towards planning a wedding. A student approaching graduation may have all eyes of passing examinations. There is nothing wrong with having goals and reaching for them....
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When the Japanese mend broken objects, they magnify the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. If you have a broken heart, the most valuable thing you can fill it with is God....
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When you have shut your feelings off for over forty years it is tough to feel and walk out the healing the Lord has for you. I read Psalm 19:12 today, “Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.” I asked God to show me my hidden faults....
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How Simple: Only Ask Sometimes we want things so badly, but we actually forget to ask or make our wants known. God always knows our needs before we have them, but He wants us to ask Him for His help so we can acknowledge from where our help comes....
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