Where Is Peace?
I have often felt that peace plays hide and seek with me … it hides and I seek. Sometimes I find peace … but sometimes I don’t. I need peace … I want peace … but where IS peace?!
“God! Where Are You?!”
I have learned that when my circumstances are devastating and when my heart has been ripped to shreds that often my mind and my emotions will attempt to lie to me.
A Bouquet of Weeds
When I offered my “weeds” to the Father as a sacrifice of praise, they became a sweet smelling bouquet in the palace of eternity.
While You Wait
It seems like I have spent my entire life simply waiting for something ... or for someone ... or for God to move on my behalf.
Honor and Grace
When you apply the power of “honor” and “grace” to every situation in your life you will discover a rich way of living that is ignored by most.
An Unshakeable Hope!
Don’t expect to extract peace from your circumstances … or hope from a person … or even agreement with a government. All of our hope comes from Jesus!
A Fresh Start
Are you ready to toss aside the disappointment of 2020 and then enthusiastically enter a new season of hope and steadfastness?
Extravagant Gifts
Dearest Holy Spirit, Thank you so much for the very generous gifts that you have selected especially for me! How I love unwrapping each gift and thinking about all of the ways that I will be able to put each one to use in my life!
Where Is Christmas?
Where IS Christmas? This is a poignant yet meaningful question that we should all consider this first week of December in the momentous year of 2020.
He Chose Us
We are the ones chosen by the loving hand of the Father to travel through the riveting times and challenging days of 2020.
A Better Yes
In Ephesians 4, Paul has told us that bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, slander, and malice are not options for us—but he has a better yes!
A Partner and a Partaker
When you and I, who have been made in the exact image and likeness of God, apply His promises to our human lives, we begin to walk in the power and strength that He has designed for us.
"Are You For Us...?"
Perhaps our prayer this week should be, “Father … would You be Lord in America? Would You represent us as the Captain? Would You be in charge?”
Let It Begin With Me
We all deeply desire peace in our relationships, especially in our families and in our marriages, but we must desire it desperately enough to make it a high priority.
A few years ago, when I went for my annual physical exam, my beloved doctor told me some astounding news. “Carol,” he began, as he took off his glasses and looked straight into my eyes, “You are getting older.” I was incredulous! The nerve of this doctor – who I had formerly counted as a friend!