What about love? The word LOVE is used so frequently. We hug goodbye and say “I love you”. I hear people in the grocery store talking on their cell phone and end by saying “love you”. But do they really mean it? When I was growing up, those words were said less…
Read moreI realize this passage is somewhat long but maybe you are like me earlier this week and need the reminder. These words were fresh water on a heart that was crying out. 1 I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. (how many times…
Read moreOne recent morning, I was enjoying some “alone” time with God. I was pondering how much time I had (and hadn’t) been spending with the Lord this summer. I had not been spending time with the Lord on a DAILY basis. God used an image of a drink of water to illustrate…
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 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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