Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. The pebbles crunched under the weight of my hiking boots on the trail. The sky was beautifully blue. The leaves were gloriously green. The vivid colors captured my attention away from inside my head. The birds called to one another; a woodpecker fed nearby. Even a bunny hopped into the lavender flowers as…
Category: Truth
Fret No More
One glance at the week and I felt my blood pressure climbing. Two evaluations. Three deadlines. A conference. A trip. How did this all fall into one week? When would I sleep? When would I care for the kids, the puppy, the home? When would I make time for God? “Be still before the Lord…
Humbly Saved
Have you ever been condemned for telling the truth? “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but has been tempted in every way, just as we are — yet he did not sin.” Hebrews 4:15 In Mark 14:62 and Mark 15:31-32, we see Jesus telling the…
Come
Are you weary? Are you tired of always being tired? Do you days last forever and the nights never seem long enough? When, when will this ever end? Noah was called to quite the task: build an ark, wait out a flood, and perpetuate a new, kinder humanity. God clearly called him, but God never…
A Crack in Armor
The three-year-old giggled as she descended the stairs and twirled before her Daddy. From a young age, it was in her heart to find her own knight-in-shining-armor. David was such a man. He was chosen. He walked with the Lord. He waited on the Lord. He would be recorded as a man after God’s own…
He Never Forgets…
She stared down into her steaming mug, the implications of her revelation hitting her dead on. I got out of the habit. I was consumed by other things. Important things. But still, how had she abandoned the habit of praying for her girl? Her mind rewound the years. She prayed for her baby girl as…
Refuse to Converse
It was a simple question, or so she thought. He simply misunderstood. I can correct that, she patiently smiled, her heart warming to the idea of setting him straight. “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” Oh, no, she began to clarify. Suddenly he was correcting her. And,…
A Heart Searching
Slamming the trunk closed, Marcy sighed as she walked over to the driver’s door. She was ready to go home for the holidays. Home. More than a structure from her childhood. A place filled with people who loved her. Shaking her head to clear the threatening tears, she slid behind the wheel and buckled up….
Faithfulness Under Construction
“Great is thy faithfulness, great is thy faithfulness. Morning by morning new mercies I see.” That refrain repeatedly played in my head. Faithfulness. God is always faithful. Even when circumstances might suggest otherwise. God gave Joseph a big dream. A God-sized dream. A dream even Joseph himself could not fully comprehend. Yet, that dream didn’t…
He Will Be Praised
Frustration coursed through him as he sped away from the one person who so easily broke his heart. It only took three words: I can’t believe. He dearly loved his heavenly Father. He knew his life was a testimony to God’s goodness; without God he would never have become a decent person. Watching his sister…