How Do We Be “Poor in Spirit” The moment our missionary team stepped off the bus putrid smell wove itself into my senses. As a sixteen-year-old girl from a small Appalachian town, this Peruvian landscape was unlike anything I had ever seen. The dirt under our feet stirred up dust and I sneezed. Looking around I marveled at the paradox. Children in school uniforms were walking home to houses made of cardboard and mud. We made our way through the…
When Darkness is All You See When Darkness is All You See – In Isaiah 9:1 we are offered right away something we all long for: hope. It says. “But there will be no gloom for her…” I looked up this word “gloom” and it is a Hebrew word that can also mean “darkness.” So Isaiah starts our passage out with “But there will be no darkness…” Isaiah 9 (ESV) “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great…
Five Psalms of Security In the darkest of nights I laid on my bed and wondered. I sought to see if God would abandon me. Would I lose it? This salvation I had held onto since the age of eight, would it disappear in the cloud of sin, disappointment, and doubt surrounding me tonight? With the doubts, could He forgive my unbelief? Because of the sin, am I too unclean? The deepness of the depression felt too far, too dark,…
How You Can’t Miss Out On Your Life FOMO. Do you have it? The fear of missing out can be a very subtle pull in our hearts. The working moms fear they are missing out on the small moments at home. The stay-at-home moms are afraid of being less-than by a world consumed with productivity. One of the lies loneliness will tell us is we are missing out on our life. Loneliness sometimes causes us to feel less-than, left-out, and…