Whole
Today I’m joining Kate Motaung for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt. Five minutes. No editing. All of us writing on that same word. Today’s prompt is … Whole. I went to bed with two thoughts on my heart. One was of the moral failure of a young man. The other...
The Sound of a Kiss
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.) In reading the quote, I think back on the last few weeks of a Bible Study which has been encouraging me to love more like Jesus. As the quote...
In The Wait
Over the last few days, I have been looking at a familiar and often quoted verse. It has nagged at me in the best possible way. It's a verse we go to when we are praying and waiting, especially if we are waiting longer than we would like. I am in that praying and...
Being Brazen
In the middle of a difficult situation years ago, it was said to me, "Don't worry. When God works it all out, He will hand back your life on a silver platter." The one sentence gave me hope and is something which remained tucked in the recesses of my memory until the...
My Place of Safety
One afternoon last week, the call came instructing us all to get inside, locking doors and windows until further notice. It was a police robo call informing us the police were looking for a criminal in our neighborhood, on my very street, no less. The hunt actually...
The Pure in Heart
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." (Matthew 5:8, NIV) "Purity is not innocence -it is much more than that. Purity is the result of continued spiritual harmony with God. We have to grow in purity. Our life with God may be right and our inner...