cancer, choice, God's goodness, grief, rest, Trust

God is Good…Do you need to know this today?

  Led by a tug on my spirit, I write. Maybe one person needs this:   She was funny and spunky, an elementary teacher for over twenty years.  At age fifty she still had a lot to give to her new grandbaby, her fourth graders, and her community.  But cancer had struck a second time, and the diagnosis was grim. …

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choice, God's goodness, grief, joy, satan, thanksgiving

The Serpent’s Hissing Lie

“I wake and put feet to the plank floor, and I believe the Serpent’s hissing lie, the repeating refrain of his campaign through the ages: God isn’t good. It’s the cornerstone of his movement. That God withholds good from His children, that God does not genuinely, fully, love us” (One Thousand Gifts, by Ann Voskamp, p.14). Powerful words aren’t they? …

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