God is good and He cannot be anything else. Joyce Meyer ********** I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” Psalm 16:2 NIV ********** “There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”…
Category: A Faith in Process
Notes from the Journey
“… Joy is Too Precious, …”
You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalm 16:11 NIV ********** Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has…
“Life is Too Short …”
Life is too short, the world is too big, and God’s love is too great to live ordinary. Christine Caine ********** Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should. Psalm 90:12 Living Bible ********** “Why do they not teach you that time is…
The Truth about Life
“We go through this life one time. Some wonderful things will happen to us; some dreams will come true. Some terrible things will happen to us, bringing with them pain, problems, and disappointment. Of that we can be certain. But we can go through this life worried — or we can go through it at…
All In
Jesus answered, “The first and most important [commandment] is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul (life), and with all your mind (thought, understanding), and with all your strength.’Mark 12:29-30 Amplified Bible ********** The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.Bernard…
Happy Pi Day!
********** Fun Facts about pi: Pi is a never-ending number: One of the most well-known (but still mind-blowing) facts about pi is that it’s an irrational number. It can’t be expressed as a fraction, it doesn’t end with a repeating pattern (like the decimal expression of 1/3, 0.33333 …, with the threes repeating forever), and…
Billy
A woman sees a father shopping with a fussy two-year-old in his grocery cart. “Be patient, Billy,” he whispers. “You can handle this, Billy. It’s okay, Billy.” The woman said to him, “I don’t mean to interrupt your shopping, but I just had to tell you how wonderfully loving and patient you are with little…
Plans
We plan the way we want to live, but only God makes us able to live it.Proverbs 16:9 The Message ********** God’s plan will continue on God’s schedule. Aiden Wilson Tozer ********** For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Eternal, “plans for peace, not evil, to give you a future and hope—never forget that….
Springing Forward …
… into Daylight Savings time. I’ve heard that some people get up at 2 AM to change their clocks. But I’m not a fan of broken sleep. So, on Saturday, I fixed the clocks, went to bed and to sleep … …. until the smoke alarm in my room went off at about 10:30. It…
Enjoying God
But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy.Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you. Psalm 5:11 NIV ********* What could be more liberating, more thrilling, more amazing than that the God who made the universe would come to you, a hopeless sinner,…