Oswald Chambers wrote, “God does not give us overcoming life: He gives us life as we overcome. The strain is in the strength. If there is no strain, there is no strength.” You are probably tired of me using the devotional book, “My Utmost”–but I have to tell you, over…
Read moreI hate cancer. Can I say that again? I REALLY hate cancer. Yet amazingly I find myself unemotional about disease itself. I know that doesn’t make sense. Hate is a powerful emotion, but I think that’s God’s way of inserting his comfort and protecting me from being consumed by it.…
Read moreIt’s True, I have a bad reputation. My friends in the neighborhood all know about me. My family has known for a long time. I have an issue. Sometimes I catch an off-hand word about my peculiarity or a casual remark in conversations in the yard or at church. I…
Read more“Bear one another’s burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2 Just yesterday I sat with a friend in the neuro intensive care family waiting room. Tears flowed from her eyes and her speech stammered as she shared with me the trauma that began to unfold ten days…
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