The grocery store is a great place to get food for your body, but I have found out recently that it can be an even better place to find food for your heart, soul, and mind. This happened the other day as I was walking through the local store to get some oatmeal. Two...
"I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them." (John 17:13 NIV) I misplaced my joy this morning. I woke up to find it missing like a set of lost keys. I started...
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance." (James 1:2-4 NIV) A walk with my boys got cut short the other day. We had been out for just a little while when...
"The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy." (Ps 126:3 NIV) I noticed something unusual today as I was working around the house: I wasn’t really working at all. I wouldn’t call it work when I was making the spaghetti for dinner, because I was...
"You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever." (Ps. 16:11 NASU) There is a wonderful quote from Ben Franklin that always makes me laugh and smile. It goes, "The Declaration of...
"God turned into good what you meant for evil." Genesis 50:20 Recently I read of something that happened during the Tsunami relief efforts. There was woman in a town in Thailand, whose baby died in the storm. Afterwards, she came to know the Lord, and she asked one of...
"Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent? In the day of prosperity be happy, But in the day of adversity consider — God has made the one as well as the other." (Eccl 7:13-14 13 NASU) Almost 20 years ago when I was still a college...
"Don't be weighed down with things that concern this world: What should we wear? What should we eat? What should we drink? … Look at the birds. They don't worry …" (Matthew 6:25,26) Philio is my son-in-law's Blue-headed Pionus. They are great pals and Philio seems to...
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" (2 Cor 5:17 NIV) I have noticed something recently. I am not as angry as I used to be. I am not as grouchy either. I don’t complain nearly as much as I used to. I am...
All of us need to practice daily or moment by moment to focus on HIM. Just like Peter, we will sink when our eyes are off Him and focused on the circumstances. We always expect others or the circumstance to get right for us to enjoy peace. Is 26:3 says that "He will...