In times of conflict, disappointment, or even utter despair in our lives, is there a place where can we go to find Hope? Yes, there is. Jesus, the Author of Hope, tells us in Holy Scripture, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has … Continue reading Heavy Hearts Sustained by Hope
The Pool of Bethesda [buh THEZ duh] in Jerusalem is one of the many places where Jesus performed miraculous healings during His three years of ministry before His crucifixion on a Roman cross. This New Testament story can be found in the Gospel of John, chapter 5, verses 1 through 18. Although the story we … Continue reading Stir the Waters
Millions of people in the U.S.A. and other parts of the world have gastric disorders related to the foods they eat. I’m one of them. With me, my first symptoms of abdominal pain after eating occurred in my fifties after coming home from a marvelous two-week vacation aboard a cruise ship. Since then, I have … Continue reading Calming Your Gut and Spirit at the Same Time
Millions of people in the U.S.A. and other parts of the world have gastric disorders related to the foods they eat. I’m one of them. With me, my first symptoms of abdominal pain after eating occurred in my fifties after coming home from a marvelous two-week vacation aboard a cruise ship. Since then, I have … Continue reading Calming Your Gut and Spirit at the Same Time
A few years ago my daughter Eve and I were fortunate enough to be able to travel to Spain and Portugal and have in our itinerary an added excursion by ferry to Morocco. To this day I can still envision the tea house in Tangier where we sat at a low table sipping hot sweet … Continue reading Hit the Refresh Button with Moroccan-Style Mint Tea!
The months of May and June bring with them the celebration of Mother's Day and then Father's Day in the U.S.A. as well as many other countries throughout the world. As my family treated me this past Mother's Day with helpful hands, sawing up tree branches, trimming bushes, clearing out poison ivy, and more, I … Continue reading Tell Mother I’ll Be There… A Celebration of Mothers & Fathers
Maybe you have heard of the movie and television fictitious “Walton Family” living their everyday challenges and joys on their rural Walton’s Mountain in Virginia. If you have, let me do a little review. If you haven’t, let me introduce you. Events are set during the time of 1933 to 1946 which include the Great … Continue reading Journeying with the Twists and Turns of TV’s “The Waltons”
The Easter season for me every year is a time of serious reflection as it was on Easter Sunday in 1999 that my husband at age fifty-two passed from this life into the next. Our three young adult children and I didn't see his death coming until there was a crisis moment when he ended … Continue reading Finding Hope on Holy Ground
How do you define the word “translate”? If you currently live or have lived in a family where more than one language is spoken, you may have found yourself in the position of being a translator for a family member who needs help navigating the linguistic demands of daily living. A memo comes from school. … Continue reading The Power of the Word
The Holy Spirit troubles our hearts that we are missing something—like a puzzle piece needed to make the picture complete. And the Holy Spirit turns us around, so we are facing and going in a new direction. Whereas before we were following our own physical desires, through this new awareness we are brought to repentance … Continue reading The Reason I Have Hope: The Power of Pentacost (Part 4 of 4)
In his Pentacost sermon, Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and the miraculous event of ‘speaking in tongues’ occurred. One insight for ‘speaking in tongues’ as I interpret it is speaking a language or languages beyond one’s mother tongue. However, some persons do attest that they have experienced ‘speaking’ in a language which even … Continue reading The Reason I Have Hope: The Power of Pentacost (Part 3 of 4)
Pentacost is a New Testament event at which the power of the Holy Spirit became evident to many. See Acts chapters 1 and 2. Chapter and verse subdivisions of the Bible did not exist in the early Scriptures which were written on scrolls. Thus, knowing how much time elapsed between the events of verses 14 … Continue reading The Reason I Have Hope: The Power of Pentacost (Part 2 of 4)
Every book in the Holy Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments, speaks of the Holy Spirit. And yet, many do not understand the Holy Spirit’s personhood and work, even those who identify themselves with a particular church or denomination. There are so many verses of Scripture on this subject, it is difficult for … Continue reading The Reason I Have Hope: The Power of Pentacost (Part 1 of 4)
As I was searching for a real-life story for my blog series “Looking for Sunshine,” I came across that of Corrie Ten Boom. She was born April 15,1892 in Haarlem in the Netherlands. And died April 15,1983 on her 91st birthday in Placentia, California in the U.S.A. Corrie’s tenacity and resolve helped scores of Jewish … Continue reading DON’T THROW AWAY THE TICKET
The months of May and June bring with them the celebration of Mother's Day and then Father's Day in the U.S.A. as well as many other countries throughout the world. As my family treated me this past Mother's Day with lots of flowers and foods plus a family get-together at my older daughter’s house, I … Continue reading Tell Mother I’ll Be There . . .
We all love a good story. And I've got one for you! It's about my son, the oldest of three siblings—the other two being girls—who was always attracted to music and technology. I fostered his love for music. And because of the influence of his engineer dad, even as a child our son would take … Continue reading Still Eager to Jump Back into Music Performance
A few years ago my daughter Eve and I were fortunate enough to be able to travel to Spain and Portugal and have in our itinerary an added excursion by ferry to Morocco. To this day I can still envision the tea house in Tangier where we sat at a low table sipping hot sweet … Continue reading Hit the Refresh Button with Moroccan-Style Mint Tea!
The Easter season for me every year is a time of serious reflection as it was on Easter Sunday in 1999 that my husband at age fifty-two passed from this life into the next. Our three young adult children and I didn't see his death coming until there was a crisis moment when he ended … Continue reading Holy Ground: Hope & Encouragement on this Easter weekend
We are living in such a rapidly changing world, with change occurring at warp speed. What if you were having lunch with a friend at a popular outdoor café and your dining partner vanished right before your eyes? What would be your explanation? “Maybe I’m not really having lunch; this must be a dream.” “I … Continue reading Exploring What Happens Next
Do you ever look in your refrigerator or the shelves where you keep your grocery staples and say, “I just don’t have anything that I can use to make something good to eat.” I guess I’ll have to go out to a restaurant. Or maybe I’ll go to a fast-food drive-through. Or I could get … Continue reading Using What You’ve Got
Have you ever started out on a road trip knowing the highway you were going to take, but not quite sure how many miles you were going to travel, or exactly what would become your final destination? This was the kind of journey the “Magi,” or "Wise Men from the East” found themselves on as … Continue reading A Journey Full of Hope
As a working mom whose first two children (a boy and then a girl) were born 21 months apart, by the time “Child Number Three” came along—4 ¾ years after her sister—I didn’t always do things the traditional way. One example is how “Number Three” became a Santa’s Helper in what many of you might … Continue reading A Delightful Santa’s Helper
Some of you may be thinking, “What in the world is a house for Toddler Jesus?” Let me give you some background information before I jump into telling you how my two school age granddaughters and I recently made a little cardboard and popsicle stick house. We are going to use it at Christmastime alongside … Continue reading A House for Toddler Jesus (craft project)
A first cousin on my maternal (Marcum) side of the family recently passed away. Memories flooded into my mind when I received a text from his son Mike that he was gone. Actually, I sat down and cried for a while for there were so many good memories that I had of “Billy” as he … Continue reading An Unexpected Special Thanksgiving — In Memory of My Cousin Bill Warren
We see a wide-eyed little girl, maybe six or so, in a church worship service. She’s standing next to her mother in a pew at the left side of the sanctuary, very close to the pianist whose fingers move adroitly over the keys of the ebony baby grand piano. The child’s eyes shift from the … Continue reading Vibrant Vibes — A Musical Phenomenon
If there’s anything our modern times have been good about teaching us, it is that there is nothing we can claim as normal. Even as young adults, if we had pretty much figured out what our passion was and sketched out a plan for reaching certain goals in life, I think we all have found … Continue reading Finding Calm in Times of Chaos
We have recently witnessed via our televised news the surprising outbreak of violence between Hamas and Israel, the scale of which has not been seen in the Middle East since October 1973. This brings to mind a poem of prophecy I first wrote in 2019, inspired by a quote attributed to David Ben Gurion, the … Continue reading Present Conflict Between Hamas and Israel–Messiah’s Footsteps?
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