It’s hard to relinquish control. I hate to lose and I would rather fight til I drop than surrender. In some ways that’s a good thing. I need to have that “fighting” spirit to get through life. But that very same character trait of fighting perseverance has the negative flip side of stubborn […]
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Please! Make Me Lie Down in Green Pastures
Psalms 23 is probably the most memorized Psalm in the Bible. He leads me beside still waters…He makes me lie down in green pastures. Sometimes- we just need to be #made to lie down! #greenPastures #Shepherd Click To Tweet This verse J u M p E d in my head one day as I […]
Quick Sands of Self Pity
There’s a difference between grief, sadness, and depression, and falling into the quick sands of self-pity. Depression is being consumed with sadness- self pity is being consumed with our SELF. Don’t go near the quick sands of self pity; it will swallow you alive #selfpity Click To Tweet After our daughter, Kristin, died, I traveled […]
Lakes of Laughter
“A merry heart does good like a medicine. But a broken spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22 KJV A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength. Proverbs 17:22 NLT A cheerful disposition is good for your health; gloom and doom leave you bone-tired. Proverbs 17:22 […]