Joying in the Journey
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
The Double Back Verse I was pacing the floor, wringing my hands as I talked to myself. “What should I do, what should I do? Oh dear God (which was not intended to be a prayer), what on earth should I do?” I was oblivious to the fact my son (who was college-age at the time) was sitting in the adjacent breakfast room watching me march around the kitchen island in a complete panic mode like I had not one lick of good sense. Before I could get to a full-blown melt down I heard his Continue Reading
