On The Edge Of Faith. Afraid to Jump. Where Our Foster Daughter Finds Jesus.

She sits on the edge of diving.  Diving into a world foreign to what she knows.  She waits.  Hesitates.  Wants to know…. Is it real? Will this hurt me? Can I really be….something other than what I have been being? And I see the war.  So tangible. Waking me in sleeping hours, to help her fight […]

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God is Still Good!

God is still good….. When noise of pain echos in people’s ears…..and God speaks truth to try to draw them close to Him…but, they refuse to hear…. God is still good! When there is a typhoon on the very same island our son is now staying on… And we haven’t heard from him….. God is still […]

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The “Do” in Faith

Teacher.  Of sorts.  Always Learning.  Growing. Seeking… Curled up with a book…..My haven of retreat. Pounding words out on a computer screen….My happy place. Yet, opening The Word this morning….I am bombarded with a different kind of living. A living rich with works.  A more than faith kind of life…. But a life abundant with fruit. […]

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When Faith Smothers Fear

Rumors fly by like nasty bugs unswattable on a hot summers eve. And the naysayers keep forcing their self-promoting ways, like bullfrogs croaking loudly before sleep. And people are fleeing.                             Walking away from homes.                                                                 And families.                                                                             And hope.                                                                                              ….Everything they have worked for, for years.And it rises in many around….. Dreaded fear.  Like Chinese Torture….it comes […]

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Ponderings from the Pond: Faith

And I read this morning… Your faith must not be a passive faith. For as day’s progress, a spirit of apathy will prevail. And with hardships all around, we moan….But, “We just can’t believe.”  Yet, how many untrustworthy things do we have faith in? Man, who is proven fallible, we cling to…Yet, God who is perfect, we […]

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