Let me show you my beautiful garden Although it no longer belongs to me. With all my toiling, sun up to sun down My garden was not meant to be. Little did I know of the seeds, Seeds of deception and lies— Until one day a stranger asked “Why the despair in your eyes?”...
Knowing my own need, the Lord is leading me in the year of 2017 to continue in my desire and search for the contentment that is found in Him alone. It is easy to read about, to talk about, to search for its meaning and to hope and pray for it. Like “humility” which...
This good news was announced on earth to a few shepherds by a single angel, after which a multitude of angels rejoiced, in praise “to God in the highest.” One of the greatest events on earth took place that night. Can we imagine what was going on in heaven? Could it...
Some people of the Christian faith are celebrating the season of Advent ~ the anticipated coming of the Messiah. (See related article for a longer explanation.) Advent emphasizes two main things, “coming” and Jesus Christ ~ the one who was to come, who has come, who...
I would rather write than eat; pray than sleep; read His word than play, because the one about whom I write, and the one to whom I pray, is the one who gives me life, and the one for whom I live. This has all been through a process of growing and bearing the fruit of...
Seven weeks from today America will have a new president. Those who voted for the winner will be happy. Those who voted for the loser will realize that their candidate was defeated, and their hope is gone. Others have had no hope in either one. These may remain...
During the past twenty years that Jerry and I have lived here in Buford, Georgia we have been caregivers for four of our grandchildren, and four and a half years we cared for my mother who had Alzheimer’s disease. Only a month after her death, in 2006, Jerry had...
Many will say that if God is sovereign and that He has predestined everything then we are no more than robots or puppets. We may use this description for those who live by the dictates of our world’s culture, but never to describe those whom God calls His own people....
A few months ago the Lord gave us this new rule in our house. Since then Jerry and I have looked at every situation from a different perspective. The Glad Rule keeps us looking up, toward the Lord our God in all circumstances. Instead of dwelling on the difficulties,...