Joying in the Journey
Perish, spoil and fade. We meet up with these three terminal words every day here in the land of the living. Because everything has an expiration date. Everything is slowly dying. What I love, What I Hate Fresh cut flowers on a table make me smile. My daughter-in-law filled me in that I could get several stems of hydrangeas at Trader Joe’s for only a few bucks. This is a great deal but unfortunately, alas, after a week or less they’ll start to droop, fall apart and then poof! Continue Reading
When a hard season arises (like the one I’m in now) where there are questions with seemingly no answers, where do you turn? Where do you place your hope? In God? I do. But is my hope fully in Him or do I try to find it in people? Truthfully, I do find myself wanting a human, someone I can visually eyeball, to give me a solution — throw me a lifeline. And friends will generally give a quick answer. With God, it seems I almost always have to wait. I’m sure you can relate to that Continue Reading
Why mess with a good thing? “Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went” (Acts 8:4). I like comfortable. In my book it's a happy word. One that conjures up warm feelings of, life is good, nothing is seemingly wrong, friends are plentiful, the earth is spinning on its axis and everyone in my world is healthy and satisfied (for the most part). Keeping all that in mind, good grief, can you give me a valid reason why I wouldn’t want to cozy up with comfortable? A Continue Reading
