“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21 Love. Can you love someone before seeing them? Of course, as parents, we love our children as they are growing in the mothers’ womb. But, what about adoptive parents? Can they love a child before having a physical or emotional connection with [...]
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It is with sadness that I write these words. It is time for me to end writing this column. As most of you are aware, I have had a very difficult year or so, and right now my heart is not into writing anymore. So, after much prayer and thinking things through, I have decided [...]
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“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps not record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, [...]
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“No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you – life.” A woman has the most mysterious and wonderful power in the whole world – choosing to give birth to a child. Most of the time, the child is born into a family unit. But there are times when a woman has [...]
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“On Easter Day, the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.” Douglas Thornton Easter Day is so full of joy and promise–of promises filled and yet to be realized–and a glimpse to life everlasting. We have gone through a long period of Lent, pondering the sufferings of Christ and his ultimate death so that [...]
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Hope. March is the perfect time to reflect on hope. Soon we’ll see visual signs of new life in the spring flowers and new tendrils of grass peeking up out of the brown frozen ground. We hear of God’s promise of eternal life through the sacrifice and death of His only son, Jesus Christ. Without [...]
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“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.” 2 Corinthians 4:7-10
Do you ever feel like you are in a season when the winds and rains of trouble and difficulty are hitting you from all sides? Times where it seems that every time the winds die down, you find that it is not the end, but only the eye of the storm? Stormy seasons will come. But we have a treasure, a great and mighty treasure ~ the all-surpassing power of God. During difficult seasons, this power gives us the ability to say, “I am not crushed; I am not in despair; I am not abandoned or destroyed!”
Thank you my sweet Jesus! You are my treasure. May your life be revealed in me!
Grateful even in storms,
Nicole
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