A few days ago I had lunch with a sweet friend. As we watercolored in our journals, we chatted. She shared about the word she chose for 2019 and then explained that she was also choosing a name of God for the year. I really liked that idea of choosing a name of God, and [...]
Tag: Need
We Need the Lord and Each Other
If someone asked you to describe the Lord and your experience of Him, What would you say? How does that influence your interactions with others and how you respond to pain and difficulties? Shadows are the result of something blocking the light. There are many things in life that cast a shadow on our faith [...]
The Throne of Grace
Hebrews 4:16 "Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." Doesn't that verse just make you sigh a breath of relief? It's like you have been walking around carrying a boulder on your back and then [...]
The Weight of Life
Are you seemingly sinking under the weight of life? I have been doing a Kim Avery online-Bible study titled Life Overflowing, it is on the book of Ephesians. It's an excellent study, with audio lessons and a worksheet for note-taking for each lesson. I was writing about it in my journal and inadvertently wrote "Life Overwhelming" [...]
Love
Where is love in your life? How do you get the love you need? These are questions I had to ask myself as I read Ann Voskamp's book The Broken Way. The love we receive from the Lord and the reality of how He demonstrated His love is all wrapped up in two words: unconditional and [...]