As you well know, I have allowed myself to be in a bit of a financial pickle. However, I am learning to put my faith in God, not worldly possessions. I’m feeling very sick and weak today and have been unable to do any work so far today. Normally, this would make me pretty anxious. I have found that I typically “feel” better about my impending doom if I’m at least working toward getting out of it. But being sick, I’ve just been laying around all day. What gave me the courage to just relax and rest was Exodus 14:14. While scrolling through social media earlier, I saw the words, “The Lord, your ..read more

I am tired of the transgender conversation happening in this country. I have a lot of opinions on the topic so I’m going to try to keep my focus as I write this. Hopefully, it doesn’t become a rambling mess.  Trans people have existed for a long time. Many, many years ago the critically acclaimed Broadway show Rent was turned into a very popular film. It’s an interesting story about an ethnically, economically, and sexually diverse group of friends navigating life and death. One of the characters is named Angel, a male person who lives as a female. Spoiler alert: Angel dies of ..read more

Later in this book, we will hear the Lord tell us the importance of caring for the least of these: the poor, the sick, the homeless. It is through caring for them that we care for Him. Our God comes to us in ways we don’t always understand but the Christian heart is moved to act for those in need. I remember a friend many years ago say one night she and her husband were driving home and the weather was pretty bad. On the side of the road, they saw a hooded figure walking. They stopped and asked if the man wanted a ride somewhere. He accepted and they drove him to a restaurant a couple of mil ..read more

The Screwtape Letters is one of the best books I have ever read and would highly encourage everyone to read it at least once in their lives. It would make a good Lenten read. The premise of the book is that a senior demon is trying to instruct a junior demon on how to damn a man’s soul. The reason I loved the book so much was that it helped me to personify evil in a way I hadn’t been able to do before. The whole Christian faith is rooted in the personification of God in Jesus Christ. I have never had a problem with seeing the King as a real person because that’s who He is to us already. But ..read more

You know when you have a surprise for a kid and you tease them a little bit? You tell them you have a surprise but they can only have it if they’re extra well behaved for the babysitter. They ask you what it is but that would ruin the surprise! They try to get you to tell them but you just reiterate the instructions and leave the house. I kinda feel like Jesus is doing that to this poor woman. He knows He is going to save the daughter, she doesn’t. So why would He bring such terror into a mother’s heart? He didn’t do it for her, but for the people around hIm. It was vitally important for Jew ..read more

As women, modern women at that, it seems we are busy all the time. We go from work to volunteering, to family obligations, constantly on the move. For many of us, the work we do is for the Lord so it’s time spent on the Kingdom, but how often do we allow that to get in the way of personal time? In this passage, Jesus sets such a beautiful example for us.  In verse 13 we see the Lord wants to be by Himself but when He sees the people His heart is moved with pity for them. He temporarily puts aside His own need to mourn the death of His cousin, because He sees others desperate to encounte ..read more

The Lord seeks to bless us abundantly. I don’t know about you, but I have a way of closing my heart to the King, sometimes lacking in faith. We see in this verse that there is a correlation between our faith and God’s action in our lives. The more space we give Him in our lives, the more He will bless us. We get so worked up about everything going according to our plans when what we need to do is let go and let God. I have written a few times about my lack of faith, particularly in the area of my finances. I have finally taken my hands off the wheel and am allowing Jesus to drive this truck ..read more

I genuinely fear for my country. It has not always been in my prayer routine to pray for our nation as a whole, but over the last couple of years, I’ve made it a priority. I watch the news and am horrified by the undignified and often illogical behavior of my fellow countrymen. There has been animosity growing within our borders for every reason imaginable. Now, talk of a second civil war is on the tongues of the talking heads on TV. Whenever I hear people speak of war all I can think is, “Do you know what happens in a war?” Your children will be collateral damage. Women will be raped and ab ..read more

I have often struggled to understand these words from our King. I’ve tried carrying a 2×4 and found it to be quite heavy. He carried a whole cross; how could his burden be light? Jesus carries upon Him the soul of every single human being in the whole of human existence: past, present, and future. How could His yoke possibly be easy? The great expanse of an ever-expanding universe resides within His mind’s eye and He says things are light and easy? Of course, things would be easy for Him, He’s God. But we puny, sad, weak humans can’t possibly have an easy yolk or light burdens, can we? My fa ..read more

Well, this verse pretty clearly answers a prayer. I recently wrote about how I have been trying to blog for years, but have yet to make a full-time income from it. It has been a great challenge and very frustrating. I always thought if the Lord was calling you to something, He would provide for it. Yet, I am of little faith. I always worked on the blog while also having another job and when life got tough, I always knew I could afford life from some other income. The blog income never replaced my work income because I could stop working at it any time I wanted. I have been out of work for a ..read more