Do you feel comfortable asking for help from God or others? Asking for help is not easy for some people. It can seem like you’re helpless or becoming a burden. So some would prefer to struggle and pretend that everything’s fine. But the truth is we can’t do it all. No one can. There are times…
Life is a beautiful blessing from God. Most of the time we can count our blessings and be happy. However, sometimes we face circumstances beyond our control that cause us heartache, stress, or disappointment. What do we do when life happens, and we are going through hard times? Fortunately, God has given us several Bible…
I lost my best friend…my mother…to cancer when I was 23 years old. My world was shaken. Well-meaning friends and family tried to comfort me with their words of sympathy, but I still just felt so lost. Words truly seem to fall short when a loved one encounters death. Your first reaction when someone you…
“Mooomm! Do I really have to make my bed?” “Yes, Sweetheart. Go ahead and get it done.” “But Mooomm! It’ll just get messed up again when I go to bed tonight!” I wonder how many times in the history of mankind that particular conversation has played out? I know I asked the same question myself…
Happiness can be hard to find in this life. And can be very fleeting once found. There are times when we may feel that if only this or that were different, we’d be truly happy. Only after many years of searching and waiting we discover, by the grace of our loving Father, that true happiness…
As sinners against the holy God our Creator, we know that all we really deserve is eternity in hell. So, anything we receive that is the least bit better than that suffering, we should view as God’s mercy to us. However, many times in life, we have difficulty recognizing God’s mercy. For God’s mercy does…
For eight years I was a teacher in a Christian high school. One day, I walked into the teacher work room where two of our parent volunteers were working and talking with another teacher. The subject? Hairstyles and the woes of finding just the right style. You know…easy, yet flattering. I’m still searching for mine….
It is hard for me to even imagine Hagar’s life. She was an Egyptian handmaid, a slave, given to Abram for Sarai as they were thrust out of Egypt in Genesis chapter 12. As a slave, Hagar had no choice but to leave her homeland and all that she had ever known. Neither did she…
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8:22 Life on earth is governed by cycles and seasons of time—day and night, the four seasons of the year, seedtime and harvest, etc. Our lives can also be viewed as a…
**In this post, I will be sharing a condensed version of two families’ stories of hope. In order to protect these families’ privacy, I will be using fictional names. In our reading this week, Psalms 27:13 caught my attention. Again. You see, it is underlined in my Bible and circled. Because God has used it…