Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” – John 3:3 When we commit our lives to Christ and commit to follow him, we are born into a new world spiritually. The Kingdom of God becomes an internal womb around our spirit. […]
By his light, I walked through the darkness! – Job 29:3 About a month after I returned home from Arkansas after care giving for my sister during her short ten month battle with bladder cancer I had a dream that comforted me through a very dark period afterwards. I found comfort in the dream as […]
A year and a half ago, on March 23rd, 2014 my cousin Tessa, age 27, was killed in a head-on collision by a drunk driver as she was on her way home. She died instantly leaving behind 4 surviving children. The criminal case for it ended just last week. Her death has impacted our entire […]
“If you can’t see His way past the tears, trust His heart.” – Charles Spurgeon It is one thing to have wounds inflicted by an enemy, another by your closest friend. At times I felt betrayed by God in grief. Why God? Why did you allow it? It’s been a year and a half since […]
“Converse much with Christ…Delight to walk with him, to meet him, to view his beauty, to hear his voice, to taste his sweetness. Take all occasions to present yourselves before him. Depart not out of his presence, until he smiles and he speaks kindly to your heart. Stay until he reveals his presence by impressions, […]
March 7, 1983 – February 3, 2014 There were so many things I loved about Ms. Hazel that I am going to miss. I loved her ornery personality. She was inspirational in her good-humored orneriness. She loved to instigate and rile people up in a fun, playful, good-natured way. I loved her quick wittedness. You […]
I recently went to Moore, OK with a small team from my workplace to spend a day helping with the disaster relief from the tornado that swept through it on May 20th. Several of us who were assigned field work, spent the entire day working in a large field right on the edge of the […]
I recently ran across a passage that I had marked from one of my favorite books called Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss. I don’t read two many novels, but this was one that I ran across that I have bought copies of and insisted it was mandatory reading for my girl friends. You can actually […]
It’s hard to share portions of your life and God’s work in it because each story is like a page torn out from a book. You may get a glimpse, a taste but you can’t see and understand His complete work which intertwines and underlies all the stories in your life together, and then intertwines […]
