There is nothing like being weak either physically or in mind or spirit to bring us to a place of needing to stand upon GOD’S strength for us. I recently started on a new drug due to my breast cancer and the oncologist told me well, you will feel ok the first week, not so … More IT’S NOT ABOUT OUR WEAKNESS
I remember sitting once in the stunned silence of knowing and hearing the words: breast cancer. There are words that we hear that can break our souls right in two. There are situations that seem to take away from us everything that we knew as normal and your life is just shattered into a million … More YOU HAVE ALL YOU NEED
It is not in the equation for me to write a sermon anytime soon. I leave that for the experts! But did you know your life of suffering can be a sermon to someone watching you? I’ve come to believe that our suffering has a purpose and is necessary. How in the world would we … More GOD USES SUFFERING AS OUR SERMON
JESUS came to us as a gift but did you know that HE also is an ever present guest? JESUS is always and forever with us and HE told us so in HIS word……. MATTHEW 28: 20 “AND BEHOLD, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, TO THE END OF THE AGE.” Always with us, always there, always willing … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
Yesterday I had a long conversation with a neighbor of a friend of mine. She was dealing with a hard diagnosis and possibly a hard future. Sitting in the unknown is difficult to say the least. Where is the hope in this? I shared with her how cancer has visited my family twice, but also … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
I can almost guarantee that if you have lived long enough, sooner or later you will face a situation in life that seems impossible. You will view a situation that in all your humanness you see it as impossible to be true, impossible to solve and impossible to go on. JEREMIAH 32: 17 “AH, LORD … More LET’S TRUST GOD WITH OUR IMPOSSIBLES
Are you spent this morning? Maybe at the end of your rope? Are you feeling like it’s another day that the world is taking everything from you? Maybe you feel grief from a recent loss or maybe you are facing a diagnosis you did not ask for. But whatever you are feeling this morning, I am … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
I don’t know about you, but I woke up weary this morning. We all have days like this, days where it takes every ounce of our being to just get out of bed. But then I read this in my devotional this morning from OSWALD CHAMBERS: “IT IS A POSITIVE CRIME TO BE WEAK IN … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
We all face hard things……..some of us have that hard thing continuously in our view. When we look at the life of CHRIST HE endured hard things too. But every day HE went out to a quiet place and spent time with HIS FATHER. There is a way we all want to go and then … More AND THIS HARD THING…….
In the past and sometimes even now, I tend to think I need to give GOD only my best. My best words and actions and self. But then it happens because life happens and I am overwhelmed with problems and worries. This past year for our family has not been easy. Cancer hitting twice in … More GIVE HIM YOUR BEST AND BROKEN TOO
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