How We Can Truly Strive for Peace
Lush olive branches. A circle with three lines in the middle. A hip oral salutation made to friends or strangers. These symbols and gestures communicate peace. Indeed peace, by its very nature, sounds like a passive state that befalls rather than is chosen. I once bought into that line of thinking, too. I believed the feeling of peace would befall like a fresh spring rain on the willing, repentant Christian. But for peace to be more than “just a wish your heart makes” as Cinderella might say, it must be an intention. I’ve been pondering how we can truly strive for peace. In 1 Peter 3:11, Jesus’s disciple speaks of…
Retrofitting for Spiritual Earthquakes
Hindrances and Obstacles
Razor-Edged, Sacrificial “True” Love
Picture it: 3:30 a.m. on a cold February morning in 2018. The pain of my new artificial knee had reached a nine. Indeed, my six inch-long centipede of a scar felt like it would rip open from my agony. So I quietly sobbed alone in my bed, not wanting to disturb anyone. My sleepy husband padded down the hallway. He heard me crying and systematically proceeded to add ice to the machine designed to freeze out my pain. In that moment, my adult self experienced from the receiving end something new first-hand. What was it? Razor-Edged, Sacrificial “True” Love. As a young 13-year-old girl, wondering and dreaming about what love…
Kicking Inner Critics to the Curb
A Friend Indeed
Shedding Shame and Regret
Your Emotional Rescue: And God’s Response to Your SOS
The future of the pandemic remains uncertain. Fear about responses to a change of guard in the White House loom over our country. Rumblings of martial law permeate the national conversation. Yet our Jehovah Jirah stands at the crossroads. So don’t panic. Posture yourself for…wait for it: Your emotional rescue: God’s Response to your SOS. It’s ready for the taking. Don’t Fall Prey to Doomsday Mindsets Maybe you aren’t literally wielding a white flag right now. But we are all unsettled to some degree. Essentially, living in these challenging times requires each of us to strike a delicate balance in our attitudes. We must essentially walk a tenuous tightrope. On…
Divine Quality Control
Cultivating Compassion
When the world bares down on us, there is only one place we can turn to.
