A quick trip outside in the afternoon sunshine is all I need to lift my spirits. I work all day in a wonderful classroom. It has plenty of cabinets, four sinks, smartboard and two TV’s! What more could I want? A window to the outside. In the cinderblock rectangle of technology, I miss the simple…
Category: Christian Life
Fret No More
One glance at the week and I felt my blood pressure climbing. Two evaluations. Three deadlines. A conference. A trip. How did this all fall into one week? When would I sleep? When would I care for the kids, the puppy, the home? When would I make time for God? “Be still before the Lord…
Humbly Saved
Have you ever been condemned for telling the truth? “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but has been tempted in every way, just as we are — yet he did not sin.” Hebrews 4:15 In Mark 14:62 and Mark 15:31-32, we see Jesus telling the…
What’s on YOUR Lips?
When the sun is shining, the birds are singing and spring has definitely sprung, what are you saying? When it’s cold and dark, and horror of horrors, a snowstorm appears in April, what words are on your tongue? When the routine is predictable and everything is just, well, just normal, what are you uttering? Psalm…
A Crack in Armor
The three-year-old giggled as she descended the stairs and twirled before her Daddy. From a young age, it was in her heart to find her own knight-in-shining-armor. David was such a man. He was chosen. He walked with the Lord. He waited on the Lord. He would be recorded as a man after God’s own…
He Never Forgets…
She stared down into her steaming mug, the implications of her revelation hitting her dead on. I got out of the habit. I was consumed by other things. Important things. But still, how had she abandoned the habit of praying for her girl? Her mind rewound the years. She prayed for her baby girl as…
“Where Are You?”
Frustrated, the realization set in. She had lost a bag. Not just any bag. It was her Sunday bag. The bag she carried to church. The bag which held her worn, pages-falling-out and cover-fading Bible. She searched inside her home. No bag. She searched inside her car. No bag. She even returned to search inside…
Stop The Burn
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” With maturity comes the revelation that familiar childhood chant just isn’t true. The sting of negative, hurtful words can scar a person and burn low self-esteem, negativity and despair into the very soul. When learning standard first aid protocol for physical burns,…
Tend Your Flocks
Do you have a specific calling on your life? Are you stuck in a place that your can’t imagine how or when the fulfillment of that calling could possibly transpire? David, a simple shepherd boy, youngest son of a humble herdsman, received a colossal calling. God’s servant, Samuel, anointed young David as God’s chosen for…
Unusual
Amy sighed as she slammed her locker shut. It was finally the end of the day. The day that seemed to last forever. She recalled the sting from the conversation, the laughter and teasing that had followed. “Why is it so hard to be a Christian,” she thought, “everyone is so tolerant of every idea…