Learning How To Love Because It’s Worth It…
Learning how to love, because it’s worth every ache and pain. Read more in this post by Laura J. Marshall.
The God of All Comfort & Me
I sat in the early morning sunshine today. The earth greeted me with birds singing and bees buzzing on the purple coneflowers in the bed beyond the front porch. The days have been long. Worries many. Yet life continued… remained.
God Is Doing A New Thing
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV Rest your weary head, for God has declared that He is doing a…
Back to the Beginning with Jesus
I grew up in the church. I fell in love with Jesus the summer before I started high school, and I was baptized two days after my 20th birthday. But life isn’t easy. One of my favorite Scriptures is Psalm 118:17 where it says, “I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the…
Beautifully Broken And Wholly Loved By Jesus
Have you ever been moved by someone’s care and kindness? This past weekend I introduced my friend to one of the pastors of our church. The pastor offered to pray for my friend and her family, a family that he didn’t know, and I was incredibly touched by how much love and care he had…
Stepping Out In Faith vs Saying ‘No’ To God
Struggling, struggling, struggling. I don’t know why life is such a struggle. Can’t I just sit back in my cozy home surrounded by family and comfort? Okay, so I’ll go to work then I can come home and relax, can’t I? I deserve the rest. I deserve the quiet. But the prodding. Oh, my sweet…
Are You Ready?
Are you ready? Ready for what? I still have no idea, but that is the question that God was asking me over and over. I kept letting Him know that I was ready, but He kept asking the question. Have you ever noticed that when God asks you a question, that He already knows the…
Why I’d Given Up On New Years Resolutions… Until Now
I can remember a New Year’s Eve many years ago, sprawled out across my friend Katie’s living room floor, furiously writing my list of New Year’s resolutions. I was going to eat healthy (after I finished the bowl of ice cream that melted as I wrote), I would talk back less to my parents, and…
Am I Fresh or Stale?
“I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.”~ Revelation 3:14-16 I know two different types of ladies, both have been Christians for a long time – decades. Both…
Stuck in the Mud
Cease striving and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10a (NASB) The other day, a friend asked how I was doing and my immediate reply was, “I feel like I’m running in quicksand!” Have you ever had that feeling? Like those times when you are overwhelmed with all that is required of you, so you…