When the end of your work day is at hand, there is just so much temptation to hurry home to that comfortable couch and the ever ready remote control. Of course we keep wishing for that exciting life and are ready to jump into it any day now; right after our favorite show is over.
I [...]

We live in such a culture of gossip it’s hard to get away from it even if we wanted to. You’d have to live in a cave away from people altogether not to be exposed to it. I have a real bone of contention for what passes as acceptable news media in this day and [...]

When You Are Near - By Jeremy Camp
There’s no need to say a thing when I’m before you.
In this silence I feel refreshed with peace.
Break this noise that binds the voice that tries to speak.
Open my eyes to see Your gracious, sovereign reach.
It’s hard to talk when I feel that You are near,
When all is [...]

“I’ll call you later” he said.
I waited, staying up late into the night but my phone never rang. Disappointed again, I finally turned off my cell phone and took my tired body to bed.
Our trusting natures are whittled down by life’s experiences and many are seemingly small to the “caller” in life but never to [...]

Joy and pain can be intermingled. Yesterday was one of those days and I strived to change the pain portion but could not. My pain was not of my making but caused by another and yet I doubt they even knew how deeply the knife was in my heart by their actions. In that moment [...]

It’s been strange days here in California with all the fires. When I leave for work in the morning the air is so thick with smoke the sky is no longer blue and the rising sun is blood red in color being filtered through the haze.
I looked at the satellite photo from yesterday and the [...]

The air has been thick with smoke many days now making it hard to breathe easy. I can’t help but to equate it with the news channels also bombarding people with how awful everything is. It reminds me of those schoolmates who loved to stir up trouble where there was little to be had. I [...]

I was watching a movie with my husband when a line jumped out at me enough to stop it altogether. The character had said, “greatness only emerges when needed most” and this made me wonder at why the writer had gone down this path of thinking. The rest of the conversation was an example of [...]

You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Psalm 16:11

Unrequited love is the most exasperating kind there is. To chase after someone who doesn’t acknowledge your love back.
I had been that lover of self, ignoring the beauty offered me. I snubbed the heart of one who had shown me mercy and compassion. I ignored His pleas to come to Him. I preferred the party [...]