Psalm 23:2-3 He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. Sometimes the Lord has to bring us to the place of brokeness before we will give Him our attention. It is hard to understand why things happen especially when they seem extremely tragic or unnecessary in our opinion. These are the times when we are grieving over the loss of a loved one or over something that seems so devastating that our hearts feel as if they …
Learning to Wait
Learning to wait is the hardest thing to do. The word “wait” means to: stay in place in expectation, to delay serving, to remain stationary in readiness or expectation, to look forward expectantly, to be ready and available. In a recent lesson in Genesis, Sarai (Sarah after God changed her name) gives Hagar to Abram (Abraham) to father a child because it seemed apparent to both Sarai and Abram that what God had promised wasn’t happening. Knowing the promise and …
Living by Faith-Moment by Moment
I don’t know about you but it is hard for me to live in the moment. I have a tendency to want to know what the next day will bring. I guess this comes from many years of schedules of appointments, meetings, and conferences, etc. When I taught, I lived from bell to bell. When I worked on the job, I lived from meeting to meeting, workshop to workshop, appointment to appointment, project to project. As a wife and mother, …
Crashed!
On a Monday night, my computer crashed. It crashed at 5:00 pm. How do I know the exact time? I teach an online class at 8:00 pm and I was preparing for the class. Panic set in. I had to grab my trusty laptop and was very thankful I had already uploaded the files I was using for the lesson that night to the website. It worked OK but just wasn’t quite the same as my desktop. It had been …
The Road Ahead
Walking through life is not always a smooth road. There will be stones in the path to cause you to stumble, bridges washed out causing us to change direction, strong winds to blow us off the path and of course there are those dreaded deep pits that seem to trap you and keep you from traveling forward. We may lose our way for a time but we can trust God to guide us in the right direction. We are assured …