Sometimes God sends the messages I need in the simplest packages. Recently one came in the wrapping of my little sister's Jesus Storybook Bible. I found the book laying on the dining table one morning and after breakfast picked it up and flicked through it. I ended up sitting/laying on the couch reading it for [...]
Category: Devotional
Hope When it Hurts: Book Review
Title: Hope When it Hurts Authors: Kristen Wetherell & Sarah Walton Publication Date: 2017 Number of Pages: 250 Suffering is real. We all feel it in some way or another. But how do we find meaning and hold on to hope in the midst of that suffering? How is it possible to say with the [...]
Encouragement for the Weary Heart
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the [...]
“Fear Not, I am With You”
"But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: [...]
Knowing Jesus
Philippians 3:7-11 are life verses for me. Not favourite verses (they honestly can seem somewhat scary) but life verses because God keeps bringing them up in my life, and teaching me the truths in them, and they accentuate what I want my life to be about - knowing Jesus. Here's the verses: "But whatever gain [...]
The Lord is Mightier
I thought I would begin these posts with a short word from this morning. It was a morning that ushered in the end of a wakeful night, and began what would be another difficult day of intense fatigue and pain and bed-rest. Yet these verses have been a comfort to me today: "The floods have [...]