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Get Me off this Ride!

Suddenly I was whirling; things and people were jumping out at me with every turn. “Focus on the horizon”, I silently thought amid incessant gyrations. Clutching the safety bar, I desperately wanted off this ride. These feelings rushed back last week when I found myself on yet another roller coaster: one of emotions. Smack dab in the midst of both rides, …

Reflection & Anticipation #2

Be still. I cannot do this easily. Either my mind or my body is always going. Even when physically still, I’m thinking, planning or even worrying. But God has taught me a lesson about being still and knowing Him. It’s a necessary endeavor. “Be still, and know that I am God!” Psalm 46:10a This week, …

Reflection & Anticipation #1

Thank you. Two small words meant to embody thoughts, sentiments, and more gratitude than I can ever express or understand. Yet each day I wake up with these two words in my mind.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. ~1 Chronicles 16:34

This verse is closest to giving voice to my feelings, emotions and sense of appreciation. God has been and ever will be faithful to me. My response is to continually give him my thanks.

However, those two tiny words seem so insignificant given the scope of all I have been given, especially this year:

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It is Well…

A prosperous lawyer invested a sizable amount of his hard earned money in real estate in the growing city of Chicago, then lost most of it in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Despite their loss, the man and his wife spend countless hours assisting the survivors of the tragedy. Two years later, his wife and …

Just Pray

Frustration. My fairly free day of organizing and planning quickly turned into more responsibilities being added onto my already full plate. I tried not to be crabby at my family, since it wasn’t their fault and if I’m snappish then they are too. But I was very, very frustrated. My daughter asked if I was …