Key Verse: “I will praise you Lord, for you have rescued me.” Psalm 30:2 (NCV) I admit I long for rescue.  I don’t know but this has just felt like an extra long hard week. My heart has hurt and felt a little heavier with everything going on in the world.  And this girl has just longed to be rescued from it all. Anybody?  I have thought about the movie scenes where the knight on the white horse with colors flying rides up to save the princess and save the day.  Those scenes get me every time. I long for that kind of ending to my story. And it may…

Key Verse: “You, Lord, are all I have, and you give me all I need; my future is in your hands.” Psalm 16:5 (GNT) I have never forgotten that Sunday morning when my dad stood up and made his statement of faith. I don’t think I ever will.  I often have wondered how do you get that kind of faith. The kind that you can stand with feet firmly planted with absolute assurance that God is going to do what God said he would do.  No matter what.  Oh, I know we are quick to speak God’s word and write God’s word.  We sing the hymns and we raise our…

Key Verse: “She is not afraid for her household when it snows, for all in her household are doubly clothed. She makes her own bed coverings; her clothing is fine linen and purple.” Proverbs 31: 21-22 (CSB) My husband’s grandparents were small town farmers. Their income came mostly from selling cows and through a crop of tobacco each year.  According to today’s standards, they would have probably been described as poor.  There was no big fine house in a subdivision and no shiny new cars in the driveway. The clothes they wore were often hand me downs and his grandmother probably never owned one designer bag her entire lifetime.  What…

Key Verse: “The wisdom of the prudent is to know their way.” Proverbs 14:8 (KJV) I did it again.  I hung my All About Me sign on my door. It crookedly covered up the letters to my Everyone is Welcome sign. It wasn’t at all pretty.  I’m not sure how long it had been hanging there and it took someone else to remind me to take it down.  As I pulled through the drive thru line, I smiled when the young cashier handed me my order and told me there was no charge. The person in front of me had generously paid on my behalf. My mind was a whirl…

“Consider the ravens: They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storehouse or a barn; yet God feeds them.” Luke 12:24 (CSB) Consider….. I was stressed and worried so at a time like that why would God tell me to consider. Honestly, at a time like this it was hard to make a conscious effort to think “carefully about and believe”. I knew He was asking me to get still and it felt impossible to get still in the middle of all my stress. I admit that I’ve always been a stressor and worrier. People close to me already know this about me.  I spend a lot of time…

Key Verse: “Be strong and very courageous to observe carefully the whole instruction my servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it right or left, so that you will have success wherever you go.” Joshua 1:7 (CSB) But….. It is hard to believe just how much power a three letter word can hold over me. Power that I can at times freely give to it.  I have been known to let it hover over me for days until I am unable to move forward. It weakens my faith and stirs my heart to question all the wonderful promises God has for me.  As I read Joshua 1, I let my…

You get the TV and I will get the door. We then sat there in silence until the tapping on the door had stopped and we heard the car leave the driveway.  In a few minutes, they were gone. We had pulled it off. We had made them think that we weren’t home. We now laugh about that incident with my mom. I can’t quite remember why she didn’t want that person to visit on that particular day. Perhaps she just wasn’t in the mood to talk or maybe she hadn’t had time to pick the clutter up.  Whether you have ever gone to extremes to avoid company like my…