Why is it that we humans are so hung up on getting that ‘yes’ to our every query? I know that’s not the most magnificent way of starting out a conversation, but I wanted to just make the big splash in fewer words. Is it that ‘no’ feels like a rejection of us as a […]
“She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.” Proverbs 31:25 NIV. Standing in a Hallmark Card store, my mother laughing as she reads the cards, such a vivid memory. Oh, how my mother loved to laugh. She loved cartoon shows on Saturday mornings, Tweety Bird one of her […]
To be still and know that He is GOD … that’s the only way that courage could well up inside of me … to cause me to wait on Him. I’m a do-er, Sister — my nature says to move. And with all gusto, I certainly do! It’s a very difficult thing for me to […]
Like most teenagers, I was troubled. I acted out, wanted to look “cool” and delved into things I had no business being a part of. You can go to town and use your imagination with all the stereo-typical teenage experiences you can think of – perhaps I’ve done them all. By no means, did I […]
Most of us have read the endearing and romantic story found in the Book of Ruth. Enveloped within these four chapters is the foreshadowing of redemption and the lineage from which this redemption would flow. Let’s take a look at the unconditional devotion of Ruth towards her mother-in-law, Naomi. One, in my opinion, that surpasses […]
The Lord is my Shepherd … How many times have we read Psalm 23 and skated through those words … because we’d become so accustomed to them, but have failed to pull them in and make them our declaration of relationship to our Shepherd? The endearing love of GOD as our Shepherd … it should […]
