Grown in Faith

I am so grateful the way that God does care That I can always go to Him in prayer There’s peace when I call out to Him My dearest comfort, my dearest friend My God whom I can rely on My strength for the day, He keeps me along I am so grateful that God…

We sat gathered around in our family room. My husband in the chair. My youngest son sitting snuggled in a chair far bigger than himself. Meanwhile, my oldest son and I sat on our own side of our comfy couch with our blankets. We watched a show together. It is in moments like this where…

People have become so worried about offending that they have become desensitized to sin. More worried about what the world thinks, than what God thinks. There are many churches in an effort to be welcoming, choose acceptance of behaviors that go against God. This in turn, creates a church that goes against God. I’m not…

Have you ever done one of those maze puzzles? I really enjoy them, though I don’t always succeed on my first try. Sometimes I do figure out the path quickly. Other times, I find myself cornered and have to try again. I think navigating life is a lot like that. We’re always trying to get…

I live with a condition that you cannot visually see. It makes me feel unwell, in pain, weak or just exhausted at times. I have fibromyalgia. I was diagnosed a few years back, although likely had it for years. I’m not sharing this for sympathy, opinions or medical advice. I’m sharing it because there are…

You can write it, but it’s up to them to read it. You can say it, but its up to them to listen. You can sing it, but its up to them to hear it. We can do all we can to reach people with the gospel, but only they can decide to receive it.…

If history has taught me anything it has taught me that our past shapes our future, but does not define it. Whether good or bad it impacts the upcoming days ahead. The good we relish in it of course in gratitude and in joy. The bad though, we can let it define us or we…

I love talking to those in which have lived many more years than myself. For in doing so, it is like opening up a special book filled with memories, lessons and tossed in, bits of wisdom. I have learned as I too am getting older that age has a way of humbling us and revealing…

Alone and about seventeen driving down a long stretch of road. Very little streetlights lined this road and darkness felt all too consuming. I was led by my yellow headlights driving forward. Though I was young and I had not yet learned the importance of not allowing my car to get so low on fuel.…

Life is so fragile. We recently went to a visitation of my husband’s coworker who had passed away. He was still fairly young. We watched the slideshow of him and his family over the years. A loving father and husband. A man though I knew not, I still couldn’t help but cry some in his…