Praise: Faithfulness

“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.”     Hebrews 10:23 Anyone else feeling encouraged and convicted with me after reading Brandi’s incredible post on practicing service? I for one am still not over how accurately she...

Holding onto God’s Faithfulness

“But, the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.” 2nd Thessalonians 3:3 After a sunny summer day of sailing, we arrived at the most breathtaking point of the island overlooking the bay. Just steps away from the crest of the hill, I...

Take Me On A New Adventure

“I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.” Isaiah 42:16 Early one morning...

Why am I surprised, again?

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Is. 55:8-9 There are certain lessons in life I...

Desire Fulfilled is a Tree of Life

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12, (ESV) italics mine. Sometimes unfulfilled desires, the ones we’ve prayed for over a long period of time, can diminish our faith and cause us to lose hope. Or worse, we may...