God is my refuge and strength, an ever-present help in time of trouble. Psalm 46:1 My friends and I are in a study together every other Tuesday. We are reading the book Anxious for Nothing by Max Lucado. Just a few weeks ago, as our study suggested, we decided to put a reminder in our phones … Read More

I come with betrayal written in my DNA, he calls me not betrayer, but beloved, and adopts me as his own. I come clothed in all manner of filth and sins that defile, he bends low to wash me whiter than snow and gives me his own robe of righteousness to wear. I am faced with temptations that … Read More

“‘Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.’” Matthew 10:34, NIV Politicians on every side are disagreeing and fighting with each other. The atmosphere is so ugly even everyday citizens lash out at the slightest difference of … Read More

“I call to you, O LORD, every day; I spread out my hands to you.” Psalm 88:9, NIV The room was dimly lit when they rolled me in on the gurney. Fully conscious, I knew the process would not take long, but I would have to undergo anesthesia; nevertheless, it is something I always dread. As the … Read More

“Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.” John 15:4, NLT The almost perfectly round Avocado seed sits in my kitchen window, in a glass jar supported by three toothpicks. The … Read More

“Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.” Habakkuk 3:17-18 Evidence of … Read More