My sweet, precious grandkids are at an age when familiarity is the only thing that tastes good. Anyone who has ever shared a meal with a three to five-year-old knows exactly what I’m talking about. An unknown texture, a funky color, an unusual scent is all it takes to push back out what barely touched…
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How Fearing God Takes The Fear Out Of Everything Else
Making the appointment felt like a death sentence. Admitting my shaky sensitivities to, of all people, a psychiatrist. An untrustworthy, over-confident, judgmental, intellectual. He was going to tell me how hopeless I was. Look at me like a weak old woman. Send me out limping on both hips. Feeling worse than when I went in….
There’s More To Us Than Our Worst Moments
“Movement is life.” He said it like it was gospel. I guess if you’re needing a chiropractor, it’s what you want to hear. Still, his comment hung hollow in the air. “Listen to your body. It tells you what it needs.” Those were the words that touched a nerve. All day I’d been questioning what…
Forsaking All Others
Romans 2:25For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Circumcison/Baptism, like matrimony, profits the family, only if one remains faithful to the head(Jesus Christ). Then the children follow, and the family(the body of Christ) increases. If I walk down…
Bigger Fish
You cast me into the deep. Jonah 2:3 God’s plan included Nineveh. Sometimes I have to meet with God in very dark places in order to understand His faithfulness, and yield to His eternal plan.
Silk or Denim
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, “He has a demon.” The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!” But wisdom is justified by all her children.” Luke 7:33-35 Do you…
The Needy
2 Kings 5:13“My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” Naaman was a mighty commander of Syria, but he was also a leper. When he received the news that the prophet Elisha…
A Shield
Yesterday I had a lot of discomfort. Pain in my toes, ankles, and knees. I had hot flashes regularly. These fleshly troubles made me cry and feel helpless. Satan whispered, “God is punishing you for your sins.” Smoke went up from the Lord’s nostrils. “Is that what I have promised you?” 2 Samuel 22:29-31“For You…
Always the Savior
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, “On this condition I will make a covenant with you, that I may put out all your right eyes, and bring reproach on all Israel.” 1 Sam 11:2 Nahash threatened the men of Jabesh. And Jabesh became afraid. In Jabesh’s fear his enemy offers him a compromise…”We won’t kill…
Closed Road Ahead
Num 22:30-33So the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden, ever since I became yours, to this day? Was I ever disposed to do this to you?” And he said, “No.” Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the…
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