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 …
Joy Comes in the Morning
Photo by Jackson Jorvan on Pexels.com (This is a fictionalized account of the journal of a woman from the Bible. It is a bit long, but I didn't want to split it into several posts, so dive into it only if you have some time to read it.) Journal Entry #1My Wedding DayToday is the …
Free From Shame
John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. Shame is a topic of many parenting classes, and rightly so. Very few children grew up in a home where shame and guilt were not used as parenting tools. “How could you be so stupid?” “Why can’t you be more …
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 …
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 …
Let the Potter Work
Becoming a Woman of Contentment, Part 3 “Now sanctification is both a step of faith, and a process of works. It is a step of surrender and trust on our part, and it is a process of development on God’s part. Too illustrate this, suppose I were to describe a person who was entirely ignorant …
His Song in the Night 