I often second-guess. I pull away & hesitate & hide away. I don’t easily trust my instincts or my own motives. I know my weaknesses & my failings, so often I have overcomplicated the idea of calling & purpose until…
Leaning (Trusting)
Tag: forgiveness
A New Year’s Resolution
I’m not usually very keen on New Year’s resolutions; by experience, I know that they are too easily broken. As a more realistic approach to making changes in my life, I remember the oath I took as a Girl Scout…
The Way, The Truth, The Life
Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ~ John 14:6 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new…
For He Will Save
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her…
They Spread the Word
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to…