There have been times when I’ve believed otherwise: Goliath was too big, I was too small, the mountains I trudged around just would not budge, each link in the chains that squeezed, well, they held pretty strong. When Perseverance was what was called for…Discouragement came along. Then I heard our pastor ask one day, “Is…
‘Tis the season when it would be all too easy to throw myself into activities and make myself busy but I’m going to choose to rest and Reconnect instead, to allow myself to feel what’s happened recently and take time to appreciate those things proved to be changed in the end. I’d always struggled to…
U J R, are the first three letters I see on the license plate of a car directly in front of me as I concentrate to merge onto a traffic-choked highway. Sigh. I had thought leaving the house extra early this morning would help me avoid a lot of this crush. To no avail. I…
by Bethel Music & Paul McClure Lyrics(interspersed throughout and set apart in this post by the use of a blue font I am not the sum of the failures in my pastI am not defined by what I do or do not haveThe measure of His mercy I cannot understandSomehow it all adds up to…