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Responding to the Unexpected

December 4, 2019 By Verna Bowman 8 Comments

Our story is made up of the unexpected.  We’ve all been blind-sided by life.  Some of the greatest lessons I’ve learned are from times that caught me “off guard.”  This past year has been another to add to a long list . . . The Christmas story may seem like an annual sentimental wake-up call.  It tells the 2000-year-old … [Read more...]

Tagged With: #Christmas wonder, #unexpected, Advent, miracles

Abundance Through Brokenness

November 12, 2019 By Verna Bowman 10 Comments

If I told you how many hard places our family faced around this time of year, you might wonder if it really happened just that way. I couldn’t make this up . . . and since I journal, it’s all there that He was all here.  Autumn, the remembrance of technicolor grace that covered dark places.  Marked forever in an old … [Read more...]

Tagged With: #abundance, #brokenness, #scars, Psalm 118, Thanksgiving

Light for the Middle Moments

September 16, 2019 By Verna Bowman 2 Comments

Last weekend I attended a beautiful wedding in Pittsburgh ~ it was heartwarming.  On the way home we stopped at the Flight 93 Memorial where the plane went down in Shanksville on 911 ~ it was heartbreaking. The bitter-sweet blend of heartwarming-heartbreaking is a mix of the joy and sorrow that seems to make up life’s … [Read more...]

Tagged With: #lamp unto my path, Flight 93, Light, psalms

The One Anothers

August 5, 2019 By Verna Bowman 8 Comments

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...]

Tagged With: #one another, David, encouragement, psalms

Life Without a Prayer

July 4, 2019 By Verna Bowman 2 Comments

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...]

Tagged With: #vernabowman.com, James 5:13, Prayer

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His Word – My Hope

Surely I have composed and quieted my soul like a weaned child rests against his mother.  

Psalm 131

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