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Hoping Against Hope
Anchored hopes never disappoint. Can you imagine life without hope? Hopefully not. Most of us would agree hope ...
When The Darkness Of The World Feels Overwhelming
His light defeats the world's darkness. My favorite way to decorate my home revolves around lights. Twinkle lights ...
When We Follow The One Who Never Changes
Recently a friend reminded me fall is around the corner. Thanks to our recent move to Virginia, I ...
Taking Time to Consider His Creation
Greetings from Virginia! After 2,200 miles (approximately 44 hours of driving), we arrived in Virginia. My husband did ...
When Blessings Feel Like Hardships
We can learn to be content no matter our circumstances because God gives us strength. (Philippians 4:13) For ...
When Love Takes The Witness Stand
The countdown has begun. In just ten days, my husband and I will pack a truck with our ...
Discovering True Joy
Earlier this week, opportunity came knocking. My husband and I saw a way to lighten the burdens of ...
Happy People Read the Bible and Drink Coffee
Hello everyone! Today's blog post is a video: I've never done this before, so please bear with me ...
Taming My Negative Thoughts
We’d been dreading it for weeks. We put it off for days. But in preparation for our retirement ...
When A Heart Rejects The Gospel Message
When I became a Christian thirty-eight years ago, I couldn’t stop talking about Jesus. My life reflected the ...
When You Feel Like A Skeptic
Has anyone ever called you a skeptic? When anything sounds too good to be true, I tend to ...
Changing the World One Heart at a Time
I love inspirational stories. Especially those tied to the gospel. Because by changing the hearts of individuals, the ...
Building Bridges Instead of Walls
Our world is hurting. The words of James have guided me as I grappled with the recent events ...
When His Blessings Don’t Meet My Expectations
Not every act of obedience brings the expected reward. Although true, this statement creates some dissonance with my ...
When We Face Ourselves
Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself.- Bryant McGill ...
Facing Our Fears
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in ...
When Your Attitude Stinks
Your attitude is like the aroma of your heart. If your attitude stinks, it means your heart’s not ...
When Believers Doubt
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what ...
Planning in a Season of Uncertainty
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.- Oliver Wendell Holmes ...
Celebrating Easter in the Midst of the Coronavirus
As I write these words, my country prepares to face the peak of the Coronavirus Crisis, even as ...
Finding Peace in the Midst of Evil
Only when we stand in awe of God will we find it unnecessary to be in awe of ...
When We Feel Shaken
The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up. - Robert ...
He Still Calls Us By Name
Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.-Dale ...
Making Time for What Matters Most
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. - Henry David Thoreau When ...
Turning Enemies Into Friends
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. -Abraham Lincoln Recently, I experienced ...
What Can Dolphins Teach Us About Jesus?
Among the sea-fishes many stories are told about the dolphin, indicative of his gentle and kindly nature…. It ...
Responding with Righteousness to Unmet Expectations
Recently, my husband asked me to clarify my expectations for Valentine’s Day. Expectations can be tricky. We learned ...
New Day, New Mercies, New Hope
Imagine if we treated each new dawn of each new day with the same reverence and joy as ...
New Wine, New Wineskins
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want ...
New Year, New Beginnings
The best time for new beginnings is now. - Unknown The beginning of a new year always creates ...
Every Road Leads Somewhere
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. -Lewis Carroll This quote, ...
Jesus: Eloquent Translator of Truth
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you ...
Jesus: Empathetic Friend
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.- Walt Whitman ...
Jesus: Discerning Arbitrator
Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and ...
Jesus: Loving Savior
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”- Lao Tzu ...
Jesus: Celebrator of Life
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah ...
Jesus: Rabbi (Teacher)
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.- Henry B. Adams Before truly studying ...
Jesus: Sovereign Creator
I love Christmas. I love it because somewhere someone will ask the Christmas questions: What’s the big deal ...
Second Chances
Every moment of your life is a second chance.- Rick Price Years ago I heard a story about ...
Moments
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.- Rose Kennedy Everywhere I look, I see autumn in ...
Refined by Fire
Real gold fears no fire. -Randy Alcorn In my area of the country, fall appeared almost overnight. As ...
Boundaries
In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.-Arnold H. Glasow ...
Pressing Pause (Again)
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana My heart plummeted as I ...
Sincerity or Hypocrisy?
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. -Charles Spurgeon ...
The Power of Yet
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. -Confucius Standing ...
Transparency
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.- Mother Teresa Recent events led me to ...
Productive Struggle
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.-Pierre de Coubertin. I wanted to be ...
Triggers
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle “I’m actually ...
Rest
Slow down, you move too fast- Paul Simon Not quite two minutes long, this song, Feelin' Groovy, resides ...
Personalities
I’m a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud. – Adele Sometimes I ...
Lists
“We are what we think about all day long.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson While not necessarily a neat freak, ...
Constant Change
“Change is the only constant in life.” Heraclitus “I just wish we would hear something, “ my husband ...
Ordinary People
God uses ordinary people like you and me to star in extraordinary “God stories”-real-life narratives of purpose and ...
French Connection
How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way. - Mark ...
Translation of Mohamed Sebouai’s Testimony
Mohamed speaks of growing up in a Muslim family in the region of Kabylie in Algeria. Because his ...
Clutter
Clutter is anything that gets between you and the life you want to be living. -Peter Walsh ...
Progress
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass Groundhog’s Day in the desert was unusually ...
A Hallmark Christmas
Just before the holiday season began, my daughter tagged me in a FB meme. In essence, the meme ...
Positively Joyful
“We just need to get you Tiggerized.” -Tigger (speaking to Eeyore) From childhood, I identify with the character ...
Laugh or Cry?
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. -Victor Hugo “I didn’t know whether to laugh ...
Defining Moments
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. -Aristotle Ever have a ...
Blink!
“In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance-when you least expect it-sets you on a course ...
Balanced Equations
In 1557, Robert Recorde, a Welsh physician and mathematician, invented the equals sign, written with two parallel lines ...
God-Driven Decisions
I am often asked, “How do you know if you are following God’s will?” But the truer question ...
Walking with Weakness: The Devotion
That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. ...
Walking with Weakness: Back Story
Today, a devotional I wrote for a contest was published on the Proverbs 31 website. Winning that contest ...
Pressing On Toward The Goal
Have you ever whole-heartedly committed to a project, only to later wonder, “What was I thinking?” For me ...
Contagious Connections
My last post was all about my love of Christmas. And every word in that post is true. ...
I Am A Rock
Paul Simon A winter's day In a deep and dark December I am alone Gazing from my window ...
No Man Is An Island
John Donne No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the ...
Candy Canes and Gingerbread Men
‘Tis the season once again. I love Christmas and I always have. Honestly there is just so much ...
The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost, 1874 – 1963 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry ...
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The inspiration for my blog title comes from the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. In many ways, this poem captures the essence of my life’s journey.
