Praise

"Is it really possible? Has another year passed?" I thought this Sunday after church as my husband and I were pulling up frozen weights by net handles out of a sea of plastic wrapped carcasses, in search of the perfect bird. "Do I really want to cook a turkey, didn't I just do this last week?" Then came a trickle of memories of the year's past, then the trickle became a stream, followed by a flood. Good days and bad days, that had all been shoved back and tucked away in my ...

Isaiah 54:10 Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Do we believe those words? Do we really trust that God has compassion on us when someone like my friend Mary finds out she has cancer? Why Lord? Why would You let this happen to our beautiful, full of life, loving, joyful Mary? Mary is one of those people that EVERYONE likes and ...

Psalm 51:1 & 17 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions... The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart.

Watching people publicly throw off their old life and lay all that they are at the feet of Jesus is an awesome sight to behold. Baptism never ceases to grab hold of my heart and remind me of the sacrifice Christ made for us on the cross. My heart is filled to overflowing ...

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For years I looked forward to the fourth of July for the food, fun and lit up night sky. The sound of birds chirping, flags flapping in the breeze, and squeals from squirt gun fights. Little ones entranced with the marvel of holding sparklers while simultaneously feeling anxious at the gradual procession of flame down the wand toward their chubby fingers. The air smelling of seared meat, citronella, sunscreen, burnt matches, cut grass, and sweaty kids; a marvelous concoction that can lour even ...

In church recently, we sang a new song. Maybe you know it? The chorus goes...

I am free to run
I am free to dance
I am free to live for you
I am free, I am free

Maybe I am slow on the uptake, but it took me 3 or 4 times through this chorus to realize we were not singing about being physically free. If we had been, the song wouldn't make sense... Because there are children of God who are unable to run and dance. There are people around the world ...