The lights and the tinsel Sparkle like gold Singing a love song, With a story long told. When God became man, With humanity dwelt. Who walked here with us, Jesus, Immanuel. Imagine with me No gifts wrapped with love, No lights on the trees, No hope from above. Where would we be, If He had …
Free from Fear: Peace on Earth
It was an obscure benediction of Advent that jumped off the page of God’s Word. Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, had been mute until that day his son was named. His first words poured out prophecy for the coming Messiah, and have been recorded in Luke’s Gospel, chapter 1:67-79. “That he would grant …
Where Leads the Heart
Eight women from the Bible and the choices that shaped their future.
Why Be Thankful for the Thorns?
With Thanksgiving coming, some friends and I brought up the thorns that come along with the roses of family get togethers. Relationships generally grow with thorns, so we took time to pray over those heartaches, struggles, and family issues that will arise when the families gather, or in some cases, do not gather. Thorns come …
A Lesson on Gratitude From An Older Woman
Photo by Mike Italo on Pexels.com For forty years, I wandered in the wilderness with my brothers and our people. I had seen JEHOVAH do miraculous things. The Pharoah who once enslaved us was left devastated when the LORD led us out with a mighty hand. When I was young, I watched over …
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Watch unto Prayer
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. Mark 13:33Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels.com Twice in these last couple of weeks, I have felt unprepared for the spiritual battle that I came up against. One of those times was this morning, with interruption after interruption delaying this …
Marriage Advice to My Younger Self
“Marrying your father at eighteen was the worst decision I ever made.” My children laughingly remove the “at eighteen” part, but truly, I am thankful to be married to my husband now. God has helped us overcome so many trials together, we have both had time to mature and learn to be less selfish and …
Apathy
When Jesus said That the love of many Would wax cold. I did not know It would be my heart. I did not know That I could look At human need And just walk away. I did not know That dying souls Looked like hopelessness, And how easy it would be, To turn my face …
Retracing Our Steps
Life can be quite the journey, can’t it? Think about the last ten years of your life. Think of the highs where God taught you something that has stuck with you. Can you mark them as a map in your Bible? That is why I love writing in my Bible as I read. I do …
Bound No More
Becoming a Woman of Contentment, Part 4 In the late 1700’s, when Buddhism had taken hold of most of Burma (now Myanmar,) several tribes still resisted its teachings. Prophets within these tribes spoke of a lost book their ancestors remembered. The book taught of the Supreme God and the way back to a relationship with …
His Song in the Night 