GOOD MOURNING! Yup! There is such a thing for MOURNING to BE GOOD, when you have a BE~ATITUDE. For JESUS did say, “BLESSED, forgiven, refreshed by GOD'S grace are those who MOURN...".* There it is. The word MOURN. To MOURN is associated with death, that ugly word, but that which is part of life, that causes MOURNING. To MOURN~ To GRIEVE. To have SORROW. To say GOOD~BYE. To BE or NOT TO BE a GOOD MOURNING? This is one of the BEATITUDES that I have BELIEVED wrong. Of cours

What do you want to do when someone tells you, "DO NOT"? Isn't it amazing how tempting the DO NOT becomes? DO NOT look. DO NOT touch. DO NOT eat. DO NOT... ________________. At times, the rebel in me wants TO DO the very thing I am told NOT TO DO. But then I began to wonder why do I struggle with GOD'S DO NOTS? Hmm. "DO NOT FEAR. DO NOT BE DISMAYED..." (Isaiah 41:10). "DO NOT BE ANXIOUS about anything..." (Philippians 4:6–7) "DO NOT LET YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED..." (John 14:

I always want to SEE HOPE, because I always want HOPE. Therefore, I find myself anticipating the CHANGE that HOPE brings. HOPE is the GREAT EXPECTATION the something GOOD is coming. But, what is THE GOOD? Is "GOOD" based on this happening or that happening? Or... is THE GOOD that GOD IS HAPPENING, even when this or that is not? Hmm. Perhaps HOPE is simply BELIEVING that GOD IS ALWAYS HAPPENING, ALWAYS PRESENT, ALWAYS FAITHFUL, even when we cannot see HIM. For HOPE puts i

July 4, 1776~ THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE was BIRTHED. SIGNED, SEALED & DELIVERED. A NATION was BORN to be FREE~ "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" (Preamble). July 4, 2026~ CHRISTMAS IN JULY because JESUS was BORN, so that you could be FREE! FREEDOM begins the moment you make your own DECLARAT