I am looking back to a season of my life that seemed to last forever. It was a season of WAITING. WAITING for GOD to ANSWER a prayer that was so deeply woven into my heart that I couldn't imagine life without it being ANSWERED. I remember how easily my heart began to drift. Not away from GOD, but away from TRUSTING HIS TIMING. I knew GOD was ANSWERING my prayer~ yet just not the way I wanted, or when I wanted. And oh, the stubborn, impatient part of me began to emerge. Looki

There was a time when I thought if I just said the right words... did the right things... or tried a little harder... I could FIX IT. So I tried. Really tried. I apologized. I humbled myself. I asked, "I AM SORRY. WILL YOU FORGIVE ME?" But nothing changed. The relationship was still broken. The hurt was still real. The hole in my heart was still there. Then the HOLY SPIRIT quietly whispered to my heart, "You cannot control another person's response. But you can choose your ow

You SEE the DOOR. And there is no way that you could fit, as it is NARROW. But then you read the sign. COME. Oh you want to COME. But your hands are full of your STUFF. Your anxiety. Your fear. Your bitterness. Your confusion. Your doubt. Your worry. Your shame. Your guilt. The lies you have believed about yourself. You have stood before this DOOR, before. But THIS MOMENT is different, because you are having one of those MOMENTS Then you hear HIS INVITATION "COME TO ME". Oh

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

AMAZING GRACE came to earth,swaddled in a manger. GRACE~the beating heart of GOD. GRACE~THE GIFT for oneand FOR ALL. Oh, the power of GRACE,when you RECEIVE it with ALL of you. And how do you RECEIVE GRACE? "JESUS replied, 'Love the LORD your GOD with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'." (Matthew 26:37). TO LOVE GOD with your ALL is to RECEIVE JESUS with your ALL. For HIS GRACE never fails. For JESUS never fails. And when I choose to LOVE GOD wit

A NEW month. Tick. Tick. Tick. A NEW day. Tick. Tick. Tick. A NEW SECOND. Tick. And now another NEW SECOND. Tick. Tick. And now another NEW SECOND. Tick. Tick. Tick. And now another, and another. And before you know it this NEW DAY will come to a stop at the 86,400 SECOND. But the SECONDS don't stop. They never stop. But do you? Are you wasting away your SECONDS by holding onto the PAST? Are you wasting away your SECONDS by thinking about the FUTURE? Are you wasting away yo

Today is the last day of CHRISTMAS IN JULY, but it isn't the last day of JESUS. Every CHRISTMAS SEASON I SEEK OUT the FACE of our SAVIOR...