War is ugly, devastating, stressful, families blown apart, and it has been happening since the beginning of time. While I lost friends in the Vietnam War, all of my family members made it back home from the trenches. I am the lucky one who got them back and got to hear their stories when I
Let us never forget the beauty of the earth. At dusk last evening the colors and sounds of creation were vibrant. Red and gold set the backdrop to the junipers and cedars. The clouds banked like a blue-gray sea with a rising up of a great white mountain. God’s people must rise up in Christ,
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Everyday gives us surprises. Some good; some not so good. I had gone out to take my dog, Batman, to walk one morning just before leaving for a pulmonary test for MUSC. Bouncing down the steps he went as I followed. Literally. I ended up face planted into the bottom banister with a nose bleed,
It is a wonderful world we live in designed by our creator. What inspires you; beauty, music, art, nature, singing, a good book, travel, oceans, animals, sunshine, mountaintop snowcaps, holiness, everything? We live in a wonderful world filled with multiple scenarios of visual inspirations. God filled the universe with mystery, the earth with beauty, and
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Change can be upsetting sometimes because we like our routines. Yet, change for the better, the common good, for unknown excitement can be breathtaking. What if we embrace change differently? What if we see change as breathtaking, first, before our minds overthink the outcomes that may never come? After all the change of seasons from
After 40 years of wandering and complaining in the wilderness along with the death of Moses, Joshua led the people across the Jordan River into the promise land. It was just as God promised. Holy promises may not be immediate. You may get tired of waiting in this impulsive world. You may get angry, sad,
The burning fire of God hit a soul so deeply it changed the man then changed history for a people enslaved. What enslaves you today? One obedient young girl encountered an angel, gave birth to the Messiah prophesied by Isaiah, and changed history. What is God asking you to be in obedience to? Jesus changed
Dying to self is dying to whatever sin draws your attention. It is not isolating. It is self-control. It is not cultish. It is revealing the true you, you are meant to become. There will be triggers along the road of life that try to pull you away from Holy Spirit into the sins you
Our timeline’s in this world are not God’s timeline’s for our lives. We are created on a Holy timeline. Even this world was created on a timeline. It may be impossible to align with God’s timing at any given time, but at the moment’s of truth and clarity you will know deep within. In the
In the chaos, life is so disruptive it is hard to see the truth, act kindly, feel peace in the Holy Spirit, and just be able to be still in the moments to think clearly. Our first thought is to speak, act, or run off somewhere else that is safer. This world seems to have
