Everyone needs encouragement. Everyone. Think for a moment, the difference it has made when someone leaned into your space to bring hope and assurance. Sometimes we’re blind to our strengths until someone else points them out. We can do the same for another. Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up ~ 1 … [Read more...]
Life Without a Prayer
Imagine life without prayer . . . for the woman who sits at the bedside of a dying daughter - helpless because she can’t put breath back into a fading life or have the hope of healing here or after without a prayer to believe. We are surrounded every day by those in need of prayer carrying the heaviness of life and we're … [Read more...]
Pray Like a Child
I love to hear the prayers of a child. I’ve learned three things about prayer while sitting at the bedside of my children and grandchildren throughout the years. Humility – Honesty – Simplicity. Children seem to hold the wonder and assurance that we can have access to the God of heaven purely by bowing and getting real … [Read more...]
I Remember Mama Day
I often wonder if my mother could be the same parent today as she was in the 50s. Voices of culture have made radical changes in family life over the decades – but I believe she’d still be the same mom with the same steadfast principles. Mind your manners, be honest, and work hard. Back in the day, the fiction extreme of … [Read more...]
But Friday . . .
It’s Friday and we want Sunday . . . The simpler side of Easter is pastel, not darkness ~ it’s a braided path that leads to Calvary. There’s a smoother path that rushes to the resurrection but will miss the reflection on the one stained with blood tracks. Suffering and victory - we can't have one without the other. The … [Read more...]
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