In this season of life, I see that GOD is building and rebuilding me. As I look back and remember what life was like before breast cancer, I am not the same. There has been hurt, shame and joy all at the same time, and in spite of it all, I still know and I … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS – GOD IS REBUILDING
Are you going through something really hard right now? It could be a diagnosis, a financial hardship, a relationship gone, or a suffering of the soul. When our lives get hard and overwhelming we should stop……take a breath and look to our gracious LORD. I’ve taken a serious look at what is happening in my … More GRACIOUS CARE IN UNCOMFORTABLE FORMS
I must confess that lately I have been wavering between hope and grief. Grief is different for everyone for sure and so is hope. When our hope wavers there is only ONE to turn to. ROMANS 4: 18 “AGAINST ALL HOPE, ABRAHAM IN HOPE BELIEVED AND SO BECAME THE FATHER OF MANY NATIONS, AS IT … More NEVER WAVERING
For my fellow humans who have been diagnosed with the big C, this is for you! Wanted to encourage you and me as well because we all need it don’t we? I recently bought a sweet little ring and upon it written very small is a list of what cancer cannot do. But before I … More WHAT CANCER CANNOT DO
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
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