How can we find peace when peace can’t be found? Wonderful calm peace!
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Solution For the Troubled Heart
Wisdom from a Country Preacher series (Because of the high interest in my dad’s sermon notes, I decided the first Faith Friday post…
Read MoreFive Unusual Signs of Blessing
‘God bless you.’ I’ve said that to people, have you? What do we mean when we say that? I think I’ve meant – ‘may everything go your way’. But some of the ways Jesus described blessing in the Bible seem to be a little different. In Matthew 5, in what is called the Beatitudes, Jesus…
Read MoreSet on Repeat
Do you ever wake up and just lay in bed for awhile, running over and over in your mind the challenges that you’re going to face that day? You get more and more anxious as you keep playing them out in numerous different ways. Or maybe you’re thinking about the ones that you faced the…
Read MoreI realized I’m a total control freak!
I never viewed myself as a very controlling person. I usually let others take the reins and just settle in my nice comfortable seat of following. Lately though, God has been revealing something to me…that I am a total control freak! I mean, not controlling of others, but of myself. Throughout my life I thought…
Read MoreThe bigger picture
I have spent the last 8 and a half years teaching music in the public school setting. My last gig, which ended in December due to relocating, was teaching chorus to a bunch of very talented sixth graders. While teaching, I’d often found myself in situations where I’d tell my students, “Just trust me.” For…
Read MoreGifts in Disguise
There are so many times that I wonder why God hasn’t answered my prayers the way I would’ve liked Him to or as quickly as I thought He should. Too often I think I know what’s best for my life and what I need, but I’m not the one who can see the whole picture.…
Read MorePeace in the New Year
January 4 We all want peace, don’t we? I mean, really, all the beauty pageant finalists answer their questions with the desire for ‘world peace’. (That always cracks me up – it’s such a safe answer.) But really, our homes, our community, our state, our country, our world would be a much better place to…
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