thoughts from scripture

1 min read 2021-11-21 18:57:10

A Perfectly Ordinary Thanksgiving

I was working through a couple of blog post ideas, trying to decide which to use. Then I remembered this was Thanksgiving week. “Hmm,” I

1 min read 2021-11-14 19:12:53

There are a number of reasons people walk away from Christianity, or at least from church. Some have faced disdain or hurt from those who were

1 min read 2021-11-07 19:00:24

I am guilty of negligent planticide. Multiple counts of it. Houseplants rarely survive my care . . . or lack thereof. I forget to seek out their

1 min read 2021-10-31 17:57:07

“I hope you know where we’re going.” My mother-in-law would say this whenever I drove her anywhere. Ten years before my mother-in-law passed

1 min read 2021-10-24 18:12:57

I woke up in the middle of the night. As my eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness, I became aware of a round shape on the edge of my bed. I thought

1 min read 2021-10-17 18:10:57

What if this odd symptom turns out to be something serious? What if I don’t get the job? What if this investment fails? What if I bomb this

1 min read 2021-10-10 18:16:33

I know God said He’s always with me, but I just feel so alone. I know God said He would enable me, but I just don’t think I can do it. I know

1 min read 2021-10-04 06:05:54

Last Friday, my husband and I attended the memorial service of one of his primary mentors. We didn’t really use the word “mentor” back in the

1 min read 2021-09-26 18:10:12

My husband and I listened to an online sermon recently which contained a story I had never heard before. The USS Thresher was a nuclear-powered

1 min read 2021-09-19 18:21:05

I follow the Facebook page of someone who is not a household name, but is well known in certain circles. I don’t know her personally, but she and

2 min read 2021-05-03 01:01:46

When the COVID pandemic first began, I saw a lot of blog posts and articles pleading with people to be compassionate towards their pastor because he

5 min read 2021-04-26 05:15:27

Is it wrong to seek the approval of people? It can be. Proverbs contains a lot of warnings about false approval in the form of flattery. The

3 min read 2021-04-19 00:54:28

I know what it’s like to wish I could look up and see God’s will sky written in the blue expanse. Or to wish I had I could hear from God

3 min read 2021-04-12 01:45:54

God’s patience and longsuffering are some of the qualities I appreciate most about Him. He works and waits so patiently to draw sinful and

4 min read 2021-04-04 18:26:25

In Old Testament times, God’s people were aware of a great distance between themselves and God. One of the first times God met with the Israelites