Start & Finish Lines
One generation can think so differently from the next. As the years pass, the desire to converse and learn from my own parents has been on the increase, as I come to recognize there is a wisdom waiting to be gleaned. Combine wisdom with godliness and what is truly...
Thanks While in Transition
This week is the start of a new school year for our family. It's also a new and different school year, much the same as it is for every family. Transition. It's the word going through my head as I wonder how every everyone will do with the transition, with all the...
Words Spoken, Then & Now
We can be so quick to wonder where God is during difficult times. Yet there are times, we bring those difficulties upon ourselves through our own willful disobedience. This is where we found the people as we began the week in Ezra 5:11-17. "But because our ancestors...
He Blesses the Persecuted
God blesses those who are persecuted for doing right, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.†(Matthew 5:10, NLT) Persecution has been defined as acts or actions taken against a group of people to exterminate or cause harm to the group based on their religious,...
Break the Flask
"Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’†(John 7:38, NLT) "Our Lord's teaching was always anti-self-realization. His purpose is to make a person exactly like Himself, and the...
Red
Fridays are usually dedicated to the Five Minute Friday linkup. This week there was no linkup and so I thought it might be a good time to share one from several years ago. The word was ... Red. There are days we all wish we had them. You know the days - when the kids...