Psalm 5: 1-3 Give ear to my words, O Lord, Consider my meditation. Give heed to the voice of my cry, My King and my God, For to You I will pray. My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will direct it to You, And I will look up. Seeing the...
(This post was originally written in July 2005, well over a year and a half before I left my pharma sales career and began graduate school to become a Christian counselor.) Our Wednesday morning group is studying the book of Esther. If you recall, Ahasuerus...
This week in our church’s Renewal sessions, Rev. Mark Nysewander talked about life in the Holy Spirit. He said that life following God’s will is not so much a structured rigid “blueprint”, as it is leaping into a river and going with...
I have heard different people try to describe this mystery of the Trinitarian nature of God through various metaphors. How do we attempt to describe and understand it? Metaphors- – Egg shell, white, yolk- not best choice….3 different and distinct and even...
Recently I changed the description of myself on my Facebook page from a group of noun descriptors (Christian. Wife. Mother. Grandmother. Daughter. Friend. Counselor. Teacher) to “Just plain ‘ol Cathy”……this is a phrase I got to repeat...
At Christmas, I shared some memories of our Daddy with my siblings as a present to them. My younger brother, Dan Boyd, said he had some memories he cherished and had been thinking about. I encouraged him to write them down. This morning I found 5 emails from him, each...
Last week was one of accomplishing many goals for Titus 2 students: 1 passed her GED pretest and was recognized as “Student of the Week” at Haney, 2 got birth certificates, 2 secured drivers licenses, 2 secured replacement Social Security cards, 2 started...
One issue that we have to work on at Titus 2 is hoarding. Many of the women coming to us have had personal belongings stolen, had to abandon their possessions to get out of dangerous situations time and time again, or lost everything when they couldn’t pay a...
Alan Walker was an Australian Methodist pastor and administrator in the 60’s and 70’s, at a time when there was great anxiety over communism and wars and international tensions across the world. Fear of nuclear proliferation was widespread then as it is now. He was a...
Joni Eareckson Tada points to a trap that many of us fall into at times. A thoughtful devotional on conflict. A friend, Rev. Mike Roberts, one time did a devotional on this Scripture and talked about “Odious” and “Soon-Touchie”….a tongue...
