When Fear Interrupts Our Plans These words were written several years ago, but sometimes feelings return because circumstances in our life change on a dime. These are the days of….fear. I still don’t have this perfectly sorted out, but I can say Fear does not have to have the final word. More tears began to flow. I hated myself for feeling this way. The tightness in my chest came first. It slowly inched its way from the center of my…
25 Days of God Listening –  A Reading Plan Loneliness is nothing new, but I sense it is becoming more and more prevalent in our society these days. Even with a house full of kids, a husband, and a cat, I feel empty. I feel this creeping sense of loneliness poke around the corner. It is pulling a seat up to the table of my heart. The fear of the future is real. The day-to-day struggle of isolation is real…
Five Tips for Reading Your Bible if You Don’t Enjoy Reading One of my sons doesn’t particularly like to read. We finally found some book series that he likes, so he was excited to begin reading “for fun.” Until he had read all of the books in the series. Then he was done reading for fun. As he struggles to read, I was struck with the thought: “How can I encourage him, a non-reader, to enjoy reading the Bible?” What…
A Reading Plan for the Letters of Paul One of the best things I did last year was read and study ONE book of the Bible. I choose Philippians in the New Testament. I wish I could say I chose it for spiritual reasons. Nope. Just decided it was one of the shorter books of the Bible. Ok, I did choose it to because Philippians has my “life verse” in it: “Be anxious for nothing….” Philippians 4:6 I was reading…