How Jesus Comforts Us with His Compassion The text message punched me in the gut. I stood there, the tears pouring down my cheeks as I held the grief of someone I knew in my hands. Tragedy. Unknowable pain. Grief and loss filled the air around me. I immediately called my husband, “You’ll never believe what I just heard!” Those messages stay with us. Those moments in time when we hear of another’s pain and heartache are etched into our…
What Happens in the Dark? For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” Revelation 7:17 My children love to play hide-and-seek in the dark. When the sun sets and the house lights are turned off they grab their flashlights and run around trying to find the perfect hiding place. The seeker gets his/her flashlight out…
Lilies & Sparrows “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? “ Matthew 6:26 The “what ifs” feel heavy in my head. What if….the biopsy is positive. What if…we don’t have enough to pay off the debt. What if….I never find a place to belong. What if….my child never speaks. What if….grief is too much. No longer…
The Power of God: A Devotional on the Ten Plagues Anytime we witness the devastation following a tornado, hurricane, or flood our hearts immediately realize how little control we actually have over the natural world. Recently, my son’s third grade class visited the National Weather Service station near our city. One of his classmate’s mother works there. She led us on a tour and described all of the ways the weather service has learned how to try and predict the…