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Came across Genesis 32 once again – about Jacob wrestling with God. It’s always puzzled me. Why did Jacob need to wrestle God for a promised blessing? Why would it say he prevailed, as if God couldn’t have won the first second? It reminded me of my confusion about God giving the Promised Land to…

One of the things I miss most about Joe is that he smiled at me every morning, and his eyes lit up. It made me feel special, loved, appreciated. Then God reminded me of a verse that I’ve known since childhood. My fifth-grade teacher wrote it in my autograph book! And it’s also the verse…

May 4, 2022 – Haven’t been well since having Covid in late December. Last week was my first week to be out every day, and I thought maybe all the isolation was over! Then Saturday I felt bad again and got on an antibiotic Sunday. Missed Marshall’s birthday party Saturday, my class on Sunday, the…

God is opening up new paths for me that never entered my mind, including writing a blog. None of it on my radar screen at all! The things I had thought were part of the plan aren’t working out at all – at least not now. It’s been confusing and I’ve really wondered if I…

From Jennifer Kennedy Dean’s Live a Praying Life: God wants to do more than we can think or imagine. If God only did what we asked Him to do when we asked Him to do it – we would miss the eternal plan that exceeds our imagination. Eph. 3:20 She gives the example of Mary,…

Listening to Joy FM a few days ago when they played Tell Your Heart to Beat Again. It’s a great song, but when I heard: Say goodbye to where you’ve been and tell your heart to beat again, it overwhelmed me and broke my already broken heart.  It kept playing in mind all day. In…

He began to be deeply distressed and horrified. Then He said to them, My soul is swallowed up in sorrow – to the point of death. Matt. 14:34-35 HCSB Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted. Matt. 5:4 In Mark, Jesus is horrified, deeply distressed, exceedingly sorrowful (depending on version).  That says…

Rescue can sound like a romantic wonderful word (Cinderella, Snow White), and rescue is often just what we need, but we’re often not thinking how scary the rescue can be or how scary it is that we need to be rescued.  In 2008, I had one of the most frightening experiences of my life. It…

I’ve been keeping a journal for years and, through a series of affirmations, feel like now is the time to begin sharing it more broadly. This first entry includes my Christmas letter. While many of you have seen it, I wanted to include it because it was what prompted the affirmations. The letter was motivated…