Table
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. The prompt this week is … Table. The word brings to mind the image of the last supper Jesus had with His disciples. Gathered around the table was the one one who...
Made to Move Mountains
Mountains - AKA, difficult situations - are faced by each one of us at one time or another. Mountains are those circumstances which seem impossible and unyielding to change. And yet, God asks us to believe that He alone is able to move them. In her latest book, Made...
The Roundabout Way
My morning reading brought me to Exodus 13 where we find God giving instructions for the dedication of the firstborn in each family. Having spared the firstborn from the harm Pharaoh desired to do, God instructed how the event was to be memorialized. "This is a day to...
Delays, Disappointments & Strength
We opened the week with reading Genesis 39:19-23, where we find that upon hearing what his wife had to say, the master had Joseph thrown into prison. "But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison"...
Thoughts In the Night
It’s funny the places our thoughts may go as they wander during the middle of the night. It had been a rough day with sleeplessness for our youngest eighteen month old granddaughter. Having not had a nap, we thought, surely, she will sleep earlier, longer, and...
Bread & Wine
"I will gladly spend myself and all I have for you, even though it seems that the more I love you, the less you love me." (2 Corinthians 12: 15, NLT) "Natural human love expects something in return. The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the...