You don’t realize how much you need hope until yours is gone. It’s like air in our lungs. We can’t live without it. Google’s [archaic] definition of hope is “a feeling of trust.” It’s true isn’t it? Hope is more than a feeling of expectation. It involves belief, faith . . . trust. Emily Dickinson wrote: Hope is the thing with feathers That …
Help to Calm Your Fearful Heart
WE all do it. We don’t want to. But even the strongest of saints have their days when something happens, or information is given that causes fear to arise in their hearts. It happened to me the other day, and along with the fear came a sadness about the future that is totally ridiculous because I’m forming the future in …
How to Survive Thanksgiving and Black Friday {Believer’s Bounty}
My eyes sprung open. I looked at the clock to see 3:00 AM staring back at me. I groaned and turned over, re-positioned to ease the ache in my hip, and began to pray as I always do when I wake before 5:00. It’s not holiness that prompts my petitions. It’s a determination to frustrate the enemy if …
7 Scriptures about the Beloved
In 2010 my big sister, my only sibling, and one of my favorite people in the whole world, lost her battle with cancer. Her death did a number on my faith. I couldn’t pray. I couldn’t worship. I went to church, but I couldn’t sing. I wanted nothing to do with the Christian radio stations. I was hurt. Confused. But …
Radiant
{This image is for you to share. Encourage someone else!} We are blessed to be a blessing Healed to help others become whole And We need to be still So we can Sit with our Papa Whose face looks into ours And allow His glory To absorb into our soul. And when that happens We do more than live …