Saturday we decided to tackle a hiking trail to a waterfall. After two years of hiking “easy” trails, we chose a harder one. We got to the park grabbed our gear and headed for the trailhead the dogs eager to be on our way. Towering trees stretched for the sky, crunchy leaves crackled underfoot as…
Tag: Hope In The Storm
In The Midst Of Deep Waters
You are in the midst of deep waters. A flood of deep waters and every time you feel the water recede another tsunami wave comes. Water and hopelessness – burning your lungs as you cry out and the spit and sputter at the surface as it rolls over your head only to have another come and…
Storm Proof
Life is perfect, your soaring with the world at your feet. Sure there are the occasional storm clouds but with some cute galoshes and a poke-a-dot umbrella, you got through it just fine. And then out of nowhere, your sunny day turns into an all out typhoon, the wind tears away your umbrella the mud…
Thank God
Will you thank God in the midst good times? How about times of trouble? At first thought this question is strange, perhaps leaning more toward dumb. Your world is crashing down around you and some blogger on the other side of the internet wants to know if you Have thanked God in this?”. Thank God…
Keeping The Faith When Life Hurts
Keep The Faith Keeping The Faith– even when it hurts. Faith. Faith, it’s such a simple sounding word. Just five simple letters. Believe it or not, it’s our dog’s name. She is our constant reminder to keep having Faith. No matter how dark, ugly, scary or hopeless. But what about when you don’t want to have Faith? When your heart has been broken so badly that all you want to do is give up and walk away? Walking By Faith For we walk by faith, not by sight [living our lives in a manner consistent with our confident…
I Have Refined You…
WAVES Waves that seem unending… Crashing… Bending… …
When bad things happen to Christians
When bad things happen to Christians. Let’s just start off by saying being a Christian does not mean all the bad things in life won’t touch us. Quite the contrary. Let me introduce you to several people, Job and Ruth. In the land of Uz, there lived a man whose name was Job. This man…