When Change Upends Your Life

Change can be hard, particularly if it is something you did not plan on. You may feel like the Israelites in Jeremiah 29 who have been sent into exile in Babylon and forced to live in a place that is very foreign to them. Perhaps you, like the Israelites, had your own plans and ignored […]

Exchanging the Familiar with the Unfamiliar

Trials have a way of disrupting your present way of life. They can turn your familiar routine, your way of life, into a wilderness of grief and lost hope. It can make you yearn for the past and the familiar. Yet the disruption of what you knew can also turn you toward something new. In […]

Encroaching Light (Part 4)

This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” – Luke 2:12, NASB A baby. How could a small helpless child, totally dependent on the care of others be a savior? Yet isn’t that a picture of yourself, helpless, needing others? In the eyes […]

New Year, New Things

And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He *said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.” Then He said to me, “ It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts […]

#5 Worn Tent

The older I get, the weaker my body feels. As Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:1, our body is an earthly tent while we live in this world. Some days I can feel the worn canvas of my tent; the aged poles holding me up; the loose tent stakes that once secured me to the ground…