Why do we look behind and long for what we had yesterday to come back? We wish we could roll back time and go back to days where life was easier. Have you done that? God knows we all do at times. "Okay, here's another box full of VHS tapes," Jessica said. She's my...
It doesn't happen often, praise be to God, but I recently was off work for nearly a week with some kind of a virus. The last time I called in sick was 3.2 years ago. And before that? Hum. Maybe 9 years ago I was off for two days with a bad cough? The bottom line is,...
Have you ever been around a complainer? A person who always seems so down and everything that happens is bad and nothing looks as if it is improving. How long does it take for you to just want to move away from this type person? In no time you feel yourself being drug...
I had my 18 month Oncology check-up earlier this week. Though the news was all good, there was this one little test the Oncologist wished for me to undergo...Just to make sure... Suddenly I found myself faced with a decision: Do I get upset that there might be a...
As I finished a major project last night, one that had been taking up the majority of my time since August, I let out a victory shout. I fully expected my husband to join in, but he didn't. Surprised, I realized he was wearing earphones and didn't even hear my cry of...
It was four in the morning when it happened. I couldn't sleep, and I finally just got up. I had just picked up my new cell phone the day before, my first "smart" phone, and I decided to play with it a bit. Maybe it would help me go to sleep! I started out to try and...
Murphy's law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Not exactly the descriptor most people would like to attach to their vacation notes, but I couldn't help calling our recent trip to Scotland by this name. It all started out with a 15 minute thunderstorm in...
Philip was instructed by God to go to a certain place at a certain time, and when he arrived, there just "happened" to be an Ethiopian official on that same road, an Ethiopian with lots of questions about Scripture. A chance meeting? Hardly. Truly a divine...
I was thinking about blessings and cursings and asking God about them. I was asking the Lord if somehow I had received anything by any kind of curse. I know I am blessed because all the blessings of Abraham are mine . . . Then God spoke to me and he said,...
The book of Numbers brings us a very interesting story, one that we are all familiar with: The story of the serpent that Moses raised up in the wilderness. The Children of Israel had once again become disheartened, and they cried out against God and Moses: "Why have...