Month: February 2014

Should I Chase After Ease, Or Choose to Go Deeper?

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” – Matthew 11:29-30… Read More

Are You Lonely?

“But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” (Luke 5:16) Loneliness is one of the most difficult aspects of living with chronic illness. Illness so often necessitates isolation, and that is a really hard thing to accept…. Read More

Pregnant with Impatience

  Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in… Read More

Sunday Scripture: 2/23/14

  But the slave may declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I don’t want to go free.’  If he does this, his master must present him before God. Then his master must take him to… Read More

Recommendation Saturday: Beautiful Joy

let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful –… Read More

Point the Way

But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners. – Romans 4:5 Do you ever feel like you’re doing it all wrong? Boy, I do! In… Read More

Sound of Melody

Indeed, the Lord will comfort Zion;He will comfort all her waste places.And her wilderness He will make like Eden,And her desert like the garden of the Lord;Joy and gladness will be found in her,Thanksgiving and sound of a… Read More

Be Mine, Eternally

“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” (Psalm 73:26).   I love this verse. The New Living Translation actually reads: My health may fail, and my spirit… Read More

Sunday Scripture: 2/16/14

Those who trust in the LordAre as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.As the mountains surround Jerusalem,So the Lord surrounds His peopleFrom this time forth and forever. – Psalm 125:1-2 If you have been helped by this post and think it could… Read More

Recommendation Saturday: Who’s Shoveling Your Path?

“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.  For the gate is small and the way is narrow that… Read More