Scrolling through social media I often feel assaulted by angry, accusatory posts. We are living through a difficult time where our world feels turned upside down; everything we knew is now different. I get it. Our tolerance levels are at an all-time low while tension is at an all-time high. There was a time when…
Category: Truth
To Walk with God
Wouldn’t you love to have known Noah personally? I would! What did he do? What did he NOT do? Imagine that scenario: “to be blameless and walk with God”. In Genesis 6:9 Noah is called ” righteous, blameless among the people of his time.” Noah didn’t live in utopia. He lived in an “earth that…
Reward of Positivity
Sitting around the dinner table, one of my daughters dumped a cascade of emotions she’d bottled up far too long. Frustration, bewilderment and anger all poured forth. She ended with, “It will never get any better!” I swallowed hard, fighting tears of empathy and quieted my mama’s correction voice. “TORPAL,” her sisters chorused. Looking around…
His Love Intercedes
“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.” Romans 8:26 Do you always know what to pray- always finding the right words to convey your heart’s cry? Some days,…
Pursuing Positivity in the Pandemic
Over the past months it’s easy to recall the fear, not only from an unseen viral enemy, but from the hatred and havoc some humans have wrecked. Yet, when I recall Philippians 4:8, those thoughts aren’t what God wants me focusing upon. So why do I allow them first and foremost in my head? In…
Remembered for Righteousness
Looking around, He saw the world was wicked. People did things that decidedly did not glorify God. But then His gaze fell on one man, and He must have smiled. There was one man who did obey God: Noah. Noah walked with God. (Genesis 6:9b HCSB) He was known as righteous, blameless among his contemporaries….
Jesus Has a Job for Us
Peter was passionate; he believed in Jesus. He would always follow Him. But Jesus knew, knew what was coming. In Luke 22:31 Jesus told him that a trial was coming. Jesus also assured him that he had prayed for him, that “his faith would not fail.” (verse 32, HCSB). Jesus also knew Peter would survive…
Clay in His Hands
I sat at the wheel, “throwing clay,” dreaming of the vase I would create. My mind’s eye knew how it would look: the height to accommodate roses, the diameter to allow air exchange, and the gentle curve of the lip, just thick enough to withstand an accidental bump. Round and round that wheel whirled, spinning…
Ousting Fear
Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night, nor the arrow that flies in the day. 6 Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday. 7 Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you. 8 Just…
Communion With Him
“Mom!” A common call as my daughters filter through the door after school. Sometimes, that one word is carried in a tone of distress, said slowly, indicating it was not a great day. Other times, a daughter shouts it as she rushes in the door, cheeks red from the run home, excitement oozing out around…