Psalm 13 How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? Waiting is hard. Sometimes waiting is downright painful, heart-wrenching, aggravating and heart hardening…
John 12:24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Sitting one day in the tiny hair salon getting my hair cut, I looked out the…
Walking into work this week I found myself talking to the Holy Spirit complaining about how unfair I had been treated and how I was going to show “them”. I would be successful in spite of them. I will rise above this unfairness and succeed. How could they not see…
Titus 3:4-7 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on…
Psalm 104 Praise the Lord, my soul. Lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty. The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters…
It was a baby bird that had fallen out of the kitchen ceiling light panel. Its mother had built a nest inside where the telephone wires came into the little one bedroom home I was living in. There were two babies actually, sadly one died when it fell to the…
“The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want” Jesus is personal. He knows me. He keeps me and protects me. He provides for me. “He makes me lie down in green pastures,” Jesus gives me rest, generous, life-restoring, abundant rest. “he leads me…
Matthew 5:43-45 …love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven Somehow anger and bitterness grew deep within her. Anger almost consumes me, if it had not been for my LORD who held me from falling into…
Matthew 5:43-45 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven There she was standing in the 24-hour…
John 4 The Samaritan woman at the well is remembered for having many husbands and Jesus calling her out on it. She is never named or described, but she had to have had some use to others because five men had married her, and she currently was living with one…
