April 9. The date that I knew was coming, but really didn’t want it to come. Yesterday was the day of the Great American Eclipse. This eclipse, I firmly believe, was a sign from God, and I was really praying that April 8 would have been the date that we went home. I have been…
Throughout my life, I have had times where I felt on top of the world and able to handle almost anything that comes my way. At other times I have felt like I hit rock bottom and I was drowning or suffocating under a thick blanket. A lot of times, it helps me a great…
Yesterday was the third anniversary of my daddy going home. Three years ago April 19 was Good Friday, so I think about my dad more on both Good Friday and April 19. The first person I knew personally who died was my grandfather back in 1990. It was my freshman year in college and before…
Make sure that you read my first post in this series here I ended my last post with this sentence: All it takes is trust. Easy to say, not so easy to do. Especially if you do not know what it really means to trust. So how do you trust? How do you give up…
Twenty five years ago I sat in my bed, praying that God would teach me how to trust Him. If I had known how He was going to answer my prayer I probably would never have prayed it. I had my security in my husband, my job, and my friends, and deep down I knew…
To me, prayer has always seemed elusive. I understood it in theory, but its real meaning has consistently escaped me. What does it mean to pray? How do you go about it? Is there a special way that prayer should be done? As a child, prayer was always a long, drawn out monotony of words,…
We have a very special kind of paranoia going on around our house lately. Dozens of times each day we will hear “Am I OK? Both kids ask this question when they come into contact with anything that may contaminate their hands or their clothes. Bear Bear especially will ask this question to make sure…
