By Penny Jackson It is real, this pain I feel, My strength is almost gone; I hear a voice, oh so still, Gently guiding me along. As I reach out for the Father’s touch, My heart longing for His love, I can sense the warmth of His embrace, Surrounding me from up above. As time […]
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by Rae Lloyd I cried out for you when you took that pill perhaps just to self medicate and you didn’t really want to, but you couldn’t stop. I knew there was an inner healing for you, but you thought you could not get there yet. I cried out for you when you lived a […]
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by Rebekah Cook A few months ago I had a lesson. It was a life lesson. It was a pottery lesson. The potter I was learning from teaches sculpting. He taught me how to make a clay vase and then a bowl, using fine quality clay, a wheel, and a few small tools. He patiently […]
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by Rae Lloyd I love to stroll through graveyards and read epitaphs, especially the really old ones. When you think about it, what is said on that tombstone is probably all you’ll ever know about that person. It seems through that one-line statement or even the length of time from birth to death, for a […]
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By Shenay Shumake I was five years old when I fell in love with Christmas. It was the first time I can recall ever watching A Charlie Brown Christmas. I sat cross legged in my living room, cotton flannel nightgown and head turned sideways staring at the big screen in front of me. I was […]
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By Christina Patterson Jesus loves you. No, I’m really serious. Jesus loves you. I know you have heard it from your Sunday school teacher, your Christian friend, in that chain email you got the other day, and from that bumper sticker on the car that cut you off this morning. You have heard it so […]
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So often when things are not going according to our plans, we turn to God and ask why: Why have you allowed this, O God? Why are you not answering my prayer, God?
These are good questions sometimes, but maybe they're not the right ones at all.
How can I change my focus to ask these questions instead...
Why, when I know you as my Protector, do I fear?
Why, when you are my Provider, do I try to provide for myself?
Why, when you are in control, do I allow myself to worry?
Why do I doubt and lack faith, when You, my God, my Savior, are the Great I AM?
Why?
In my fear and doubt, in my worry and self-sufficiency, I see again my need for you, O God, and fall to my knees in surrender. There, in surrender, in the act of giving up my will for yours...
I find peace.
All the "Why's" fade.
Then my heart rejoices, and I trust in your holy name. Psalm 33:21
In His peace,
Nicole