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Peace in the Maelstrom

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life." - Matthew 6:25 Anxiety is a killer. It is an ever present irritant to the body's nervous system, impacting your physical health. Excessive and constant worry gives disease a foothold. It wears you down. It saps your strength. It is »

The Pit

On a recent visit home to my parents' house, I found a stack of papers from my second grade school year. I thumbed through the terrible drawings, misspelled words, and chicken scratch handwriting with tears of laughter streaming down my face, sharing these hilarious memories with my husband who thankfully »

Taking Your Own Life

"For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." - Romans 14:7-8 Suicide is »

Believing the Big Lie

"For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie." - 2 Thessalonians 2:11 To be human, it is safe to say, is to have the capacity to believe the lie. All of us have believed lies in our past, no matter how well »

Greener Grass

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We’ve all been there. Your child comes home from school raving about their friend’s brand new car and simultaneously makes you feel like a failure of a parent. Feeling the jealousy rushing in, you ask yourself, How can her parents afford that? Jealousy quickly turns to judgment as you attempt »

And The Sea Was No More

“Then I saw a new heaven and earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. Revelation 21:1 Born in California, the sea has been in my blood from an early age, as it is in my father’s. Raised in Colorado, »

Missing Mercy

"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." - Matthew 6:12 Most probably we are missing mercy from God in our daily lives, because we have been unwilling to forgive just as He has asked us to do, in order that His forgiveness of us might »

The Soul's Mirror

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 5:3 A mirror shows your physical characteristics, every wart, bump, and defect, especially just after stepping out of the shower or bath. But it cannot give any measurement of your soul, just as a camera »

No Little People

"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground outside your Father's care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows." - Matthew 10:29-31 Doing my “through »

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