A family member of someone struggling with addiction asked me last week how she could ever trust the addict again. I said, “what makes you think you must?” In my study of the Bible I don’t find instruction that we are to trust other people. Again and...
Sudden disclosures that challenge one’s foundation and trust in people she has loved all her life can be an emotional ambush that destabilizes her whole life. It can lead to confusion, grief, and relapse in addiction. But when one has a firm foundation in Christ and...
Isaiah 30:21: Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” It was of poverty of spirit that the Lord spoke to my heart in the midst of pain, hurt, and disappointment on a drive...
I have shared on several occasions with friends or students about a lady who attended church with us when our children were preschoolers. I made a point of making her acquaintance to see if she was as gracious as she appeared. She was a retired kindergarten teacher in...
Rough morning from 8/16/2014…. “OOOOooohhhhhhh, the dangers of dressing quickly and reaching under the sink for aerosole cans. I thought I was spraying hairspray, but upon more careful scrutiny, it was a large spray can of Secret deodorant purchased...
One thing people commented on regarding my husband, Bill, after his death in 2020 was about Bill’s quick and seemingly comfortable practice of praying with others….. Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will...
Recently one of my morning devotional from Seedbed Daily Text was about God sending Elijah into the Kerith ravine for safety. He drank from the brook and ravens fed him day and night until The brook dried up in the drought and God sent him to the widow of Zarepheth....
Bill died two years ago today. The memory of that day is still very fresh thank God for my sister’s presence with me during those days. I am blessed to have known Bill’s devotion to the Lord and have assurance of his abiding with the Lord now. Not...
Originally written on August 14,2017 “There is peace and stillness as I arise this morning in the little 1/2 acre that is our sanctuary. I pray God’s peace for all the people and in all the places where God is known and welcomed…..and that those...
Posted August 14,2014…. Since moving to PC in 1994, I have experienced a number of disappointments with contractors, service people, and others who simply do not show up. There was, however, a cabinet maker who, on his truck, had the sign, “I SHOW...
