Post Tagged with: "Hope in Hard Times"

Treasure

Only one, simple thing on my mind today and it’s this: God shows up.  He really does.  Just when I think I’m at the end of my rope or at the point where I’m going to have to muster up some of my own resources to fix a problem or […]

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Beautiful Suffering

Today I read Ephesians 3 for LONG time.  It’s amazing and surprising and here are my notes on it even though they may not make sense since I wrote ’em fast and furiously with a commentary in one hand and my Bible in another.  Somewhere along the way, I knew […]

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Wrong.

A few things about which I was really, very, extremely – but not irreversibly – wrong over the years: Mrs. Brady’s shag haircut was not cute on an 11-year old girl. 6th grade boys are not that impressed by 6th grade girls who know more about football than they do […]

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Blessed Assurance

Sometimes – especially late at night – questions start to poke at my mind about our future.  What will it look like?  Will I be strong enough to be what everyone needs exactly when they need it?  I wonder about so many things I have never really had to wonder […]

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One Trick Pony

The number one question I am asked right now centers around a theme of how I am staying happy in hardship.  The obvious – and correct – answer is:  God is amazingly good and He gives supernatural peace.  But I’ve discovered that the process is a bit of dance in […]

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