Faith or fear - what are you looking at your future with? This question lingered around me almost all day. I wanted to look at my future with faith, but, I could feel fear's icy cold fingers squeezing my heart. Would my boys love God in their teen years and beyond? or, would they choose to [...]
Step upon step I climbed up the narrow spiraled staircase leading to the Oxford Tower. I didn't know what I would see. All I knew was the history I had just learned from the tour guide about Oxford Palace and its tower. With each step, I didn't know how close I was to the top. I wondered how [...]
With each season of our lives comes the closing of one chapter to open another. Change always ebbs and flow within our lives demanding we exercise our faith, practice patience, and extend trust. The latter two are my weak areas. I get excited about new seasons and adventures. Off I go, living in the future instead [...]
I hadn't thought of what motivates my prayer life until I heard a sermon by Dawna De Silva called Praying from Power. I listened, riveted to my chair, taking in every word as though I was hearing for the first time. Each word carried weight, clarity, and authority. It demanded my full attention and required I [...]
Every day when I drive to work, I pass a corner piece of property being built on by construction workers. The road is moist from a small trickle of water from the sidewalk (which is not paved so all you see is mud and grass). Whether it's me or the cars in front of me, we [...]
God, where are you? This question has often rung through my mind as loud as the gong of a steeple bell. Loneliness and abandonment threaten to close in on me and the lie that God is distant becomes a lot more real than it should. That’s the thing about faith. It requires you to believe with [...]
The conversation took a turn again that night to a time in our lives I wish I could re-do. It was a time laced with mess, mistakes, and heartache. I know my side and heart - one with good intentions motivated by fear and negatively distorted by outside influence. It was a time which brought about [...]
