Fear or Faith? Paralysis or Progress?

How do you respond to unexpected occurrences…especially situations that you had every reason to believe would go smoothly…but didn’t?  Jacob’s sons returned from Egypt with food in hand…and a story to tell: “Then they went to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them, saying, ‘The …

O Gumption, Where Art Thou?

GUMPTION. A word with a hilarious sound, but heroic definition. The Greek word, deilos, is used when one is cowardly, and there is a needless fear of “loss.” Deilos, describes a person who has lost their gumption, or in other words their determination and courage. O Gumption, Where Art Thou? It might sound like the …

Stalwart, yet Silent

Thoughts turn like the pages of a skeptic’s encyclopedia. Troubled times seem more like a series of pantomimed clues in a game of charades. Has certainty been shaken?Everyone’s mood more weathered than the change of seasons. Maybe it’s just the spring showers cascading a deeper hue of grey, hiding the rainbows from view. But, let’s …

What Goes Around Comes Around…Or Does It?

Ten brothers had journeyed down to Egypt.  Famine had overtaken their homeland.  They simply needed food.  Complications weren’t anticipated; after all, Genesis 41:56-57 informs us that, “The famine was over all the face of the earth…So all countries came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain.”  As the brothers approached Joseph, the usual business formalities …

Author reading from the book, Leah Unveiled

Grab your tea/coffee and read along with me. Despite troubled times, we can enjoy reading together. Chapter 1 from the book Leah Unveiled. Share with others to spread the word. https://youtu.be/zcgAdE0ofzg Want to read along? You can order your copy at the various retail links provided at http://www.leahunveiled.com/books.

2 Pillars of a Healthy Support System:

Pillars are more than just an architectural design for superstructure support. They have transcended to symbolic prominence. Pillars add status to stature. Architectural design glorifies the grandeur of pillars so that the eye cannot ignore the attention their purpose demands. Figuratively, however, pillars imply the principles by which an idea is supported. So that, if …

A Prayerful Resolution

When meditations escape out of quivering lips, and passionate pleas become droplets of linguistic scripts, we find some of the greatest literature ever written. The ‘art of living’ captured in words. We set aside time to synchronize the messages within, to the “then and now.” We call them literary giants. Classics to be read over …

Thriving Versus Surviving

How did he do it?  How did Joseph literally thrive, versus merely surviving, in the life-altering situations he had not ‘signed up’ to be in?  What was his secret?               He was sold into slavery by his own brothers and he was wrongfully accused by his owner’s lying wife, which landed him in prison.  How …

Ark before the Manger

Long before the sun crests over the hills, I awoke. As the rest of the house was slumbering in silence, I lit the Christmas tree. Tidbits of Christmas décor deck the halls, and the mantle is full with the familiar festivities of winter traditions. We rush to get them up, and then somehow, struggle to …

Thoughts

Emotions give the impression to just appear with a like-minded mood. Actions can be thought through. Moments contemplated. Alternatives evaluated. However, we cannot always control our thoughts; thoughts just happen. The objective of Scripture is to awaken within us new thoughts that shape the trajectory of our heart. In the pages of the Bible, a …