Category: prayer

  • Sin Has A Long Reach

    Sin Has A Long Reach

    Sin is not the number one topic we go to in conversations. As Followers of Christ, we know we are sinners, but we sure don’t want to talk about it. We don’t want sin to be our identity. Actually, sin is not our identity but Christ is. However, if we tell others about our sin,…

  • So, It Begins

    So, It Begins

    You don’t even have to ask what the “it” is, do you? We all know that “it” refers to the Christmas season with all its busyness. As I think of how fast each one of these days go by, I wonder how in the world I can muster up enough energy to accomplish my list.…

  • Retirement…So Far

    Retirement…So Far

    Questions…questions…questions!! I have many questions at this stage of my life. What am I supposed to be doing? Is my life over? Am I valuable anymore? How clean does my house have to be? What’s next? Actually, people ask me questions about retirement which I can’t really answer. So, what is it? One of my…

  • How Do I Handle Dread?

    How Do I Handle Dread?

    The experience of dread is one we have all tasted.  If we were to compare it to an actual taste in our mouth, it would be bitter.  What makes dread so bitter is revealed to us in the definition of the word.  Dread is “to fear greatly, be reluctant to do something, or apprehension of…

  • Waiting on the Lord

    Waiting on the Lord

    What is it about waiting that drives us all crazy? Waiting means we can’t get what we want when we want it.  Waiting means we have to put patience into gear.  None of us like to do that!  We have so many things we use so that we don’t have to wait.  The microwave oven…

  • God Uses Our Prayers

    God Uses Our Prayers

    How many times have you said, “I’ll pray for you”?  How many times have you walked away from that conversation and forgotten to pray?  If you’re like me, you have forgotten far too often.  One of the ways to prevent that is to pray right then and there with the person.  Another thing you can…

  • Woman in Step – Part 3

    Woman in Step – Part 3

    “And he (Jesus) said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the great and first commandment.  And a second is like it:  You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”  Matthew 22:37-39 We have established as followers of…