Category Archives: love
A Rose in the Snow
Merry Christmas, dear ones! I can only hope, and also pray that Jesus will direct and keep you in His care. I’m looking to a Christmas a thousand years from today, when He will bring us all together. I think that we’ll all kick back, and we will try to remember Christmas, 2011. We will [...]
The Virtual Yule Log
I love Christmas. I love what Jesus has done in bring peace and joy to each one. Unquestionably, this time of the year can be difficult. Those of us who struggle as mentally ill believers find that things are more tinsel than terrific. This is a perfect 20 minute break in your work day at [...]
A Spot for You, No Matter What
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.” (Isa. 26:3) All we need to do in time of sorrow and loneliness is to stay our minds upon God, to trust Him, to rest in Him, to nestle in His love. We remember where John was found the night of the [...]
Mother Teresa’s Heart
Be the eyes of God. See what He sees. See the world as God sees the world. When God sees a homeless man. He sees a precious person who has a painful life, whom everyone else has cast aside. When God sees people fighting against each other, He is grieved because they have allowed their [...]
Jesus is My Closest Friend
Jesus Christ is our very closest Friend. He definitely intends to provide everything we need. No want can be unsupplied. No sorrow will go uncomforted. Truly no evil can master us. For time and eternity we are safe. It will not be the streets of gold, and the gates of pearl, and the river and the trees, that will [...]
Our Hearts Plead for Good Pastors
Within issues of vulnerability, there are usually great problems. These are tender areas: Alcoholism, drug abuse, mental illnesses, homosexuality, sex addiction, porn and chronic depression are all substantial issues of pain and conflict. Strugglers are very often intimidated by leadership in the Church. It seems all we can see is a position of authority, and [...]
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Each morning I begin my prayers, “Heavenly Father, I praise You and worship You. You are the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. You are merciful and loving; You are Holy and Just.” Then I think, almost without fail, that those words are never enough to describe who He is to me. [...]
“You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, Anymore”
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth— For your love is better than wine. 3 Because of the fragrance of your good ointments, Your name is ointment poured forth; Therefore the virgins love you. 4 Draw me away! Song of Solomon 1:24 “Dear God, I think about you sometimes even [...]
The Light Side, the Dark and Amazing Grace
“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.” ― Brennan Manning Perhaps there are a few things we need to more fully grasp. There is a real and definite, “life of grace.” [...]