The sun peeped through the buds on my sturdy oak trees. The birds, just waking up, chirped their cheery welcome to the dawn. It was calm and peaceful as I snuggled under my blanket in my chair, readin...  Read More

Sometimes weariness hangs around for way too long, and when it does, I find that the Book of Proverbs, a good cup of coffee, and a slowed-down morning watching the sun awaken the day is just good medi...  Read More

The week following Holy Week often seems anti-climactic to me. There is at least a month of preparation and buildup to the events of Holy Week culminating in a legit party on Resurrection Sunday but t...  Read More

(Haga click aquí para leer en español)Life in itself is hard. There are always challenges. Some we overcome, some we don’t. Many times hard times pass, but sometimes they linger. You are not the only ...  Read More

We all have prayers that we pray often, if not all the time. There are things we have been praying for dating back months. Maybe years. As time goes on we wrestle with thoughts about  the time when we...  Read More

I couldn’t find Him. And I looked everywhere.How could I lose Baby Jesus?I was humming “Joy to the World” as I busily pulled my Christmas decorations from the stacks of boxes in my dusty basement. I s...  Read More

Psalm 119:151-152But you are near, O Lord,    and all your commandments are true.Long have I known from your testimonies    that you have founded them forever.This Christmas season I am reveling in th...  Read More

December 5, 2023Any Room? My experience wasn’t the same as Mary’s. Well, not in the end anyway. And not in lots of other ways!We had traveled across Virginia. It was getting late and I was finished. Y...  Read More

Here are a few truths to guide us as we build our lives:1.    “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein – Psalm 24:1-2Everything is the Lord’s. We must cons...  Read More

 Living life among hubris-laden humanity is a tedious thing. Not at all like the rivers of living water or kingdom-authorized living promised to us by Jesus Himself.We know that God resists the proud ...  Read More

If I asked you to tell me what you see in the picture above you would probably say, “a dead flower and a live flower”. Wrong.The truth is, they are both dead. The one on the right still looks alive, b...  Read More