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Not Just Another Word

July 4, 2020 By Verna Bowman 4 Comments

Most of us are trying to find a safe place to fall apart and get free to be able to feel the way we really do. Look around - the world is filled with hurting people and right now, you may be one of them.  It's been hard. I think back to what I thought the word free meant growing up in a red, white and blue world. Not that it … [Read more...]

Tagged With: #vernabowman.com, forgiveness, freedom

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

Rest for the Weary

October 6, 2018 By Verna Bowman 6 Comments

What is weary?  The word actually means worn and weighed down.  I remember my Mom saying, "there's just no rest for the weary" - usually when she was scrubbing the floor.  But this-isn't-that, it's  . . . The world - where we're just a smear among the seven billion walking on it and yet we can look around within our small … [Read more...]

Tagged With: #rest, #vernabowman.com, Matthew 11:28, psalm 46:10, weary

Reflection

April 2, 2018 By Verna Bowman 4 Comments

Who do you see when you look in the mirror ~ who you once were or who you are becoming?  For some, it's hard to see past who we were and for others we might see our reflection as pretty becoming, but who do you see past the glass? There was a time I was fairly attracted with my airbrushed reflection until I looked into a more … [Read more...]

Tagged With: #vernabowman.com, 2 Corinthians 5:17, image, mirror of the word, reflection

Like a Child

December 1, 2017 By Verna Bowman 7 Comments

Have you noticed that we don’t have to teach a child wonder. Children seem to own awe.  And so can we . . . Astonishment is on every page of the Christmas story, the true wonder we must never outgrow. In fact, we can experience the miracle of Christmas more fully than we did as a child by contemplating the incredible wonder of … [Read more...]

Tagged With: #awe, #Christmas wonder, #vernabowman.com, Childlike, Christmas story

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His Word – My Hope

I said, Let me remember my song in the night, let me meditate in my heart.  

Psalm seventy-seven

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Verna Bowman
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