Today the hope I’m sharing is for our clutter. My closets can sometimes look hopeless. Can you relate? Our closets easily become a collection place if we allow it to. I think that is the first problem. It’s much quicker to place items in our closets rather than dealing with what to do with them. What I have found helpful is to have a box designated in our basement for give-away items or for a yard sale. As I clean house, rather than put that vase I no longer like or use in the closet, I put Continue Reading
Book Review: Lazarus Awakening-Joanna Weaver
What can the story of Lazarus in the Bible teach us? Basically, all we know is he was sick, died and came back to life. I wondered what I could possibly learn from Lazarus. Joanna helps us in her book, Lazarus Awakening, using the life of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, to get the truth of God’s love from our head to our heart. Each chapter is based on a segment of Lazarus’s story. For example, Chapter 6, Roll Away the Stone, is about some of the boulders in our life. And Chapter 7, When Loves Continue Reading
Held Together
They have been married for many years. They get along good most of the time but still have an occasional dispute. And they can be doozies! During one of these disputes, you would think they were enemies. Someone needs to remind them who the real enemy is. It enters their home, sometimes unknown to them. It invades their thoughts and makes them at odds with each other. They both have a stubborn streak and this enemy uses that to frustrate them. It’s in the words they speak to each other. They Continue Reading