“Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.” — Frank Moore Colby Just a look at her eyes and posture, and I knew it: She needed me. My friend suffers from anxiety and knows how that demon plagued me for many years; therefore, she has asked me to become her accountability partner. As she sat down, downcast, she started sharing her burden. “It happened all of a sudden. I was sitting there and started feeling anxious about this issue,” she said, teary-eyed. I know the Continue Reading
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Keep Your Own Pace {Recharge Wednesday Linkup}
"Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win." 1 Corinthians 9:24 Tall and lean, the young woman passed me at a fast pace at the second-mile marker on my morning run. I looked up to watch the increasing distance between us and felt tempted to speed up. “Nope. Don’t go there, missy.” I muttered under my breath. I knew from recent experience that increasing my pace would only lead to one of two things: not being Continue Reading
God Sets the Boundaries for Each Trial {The Atlanta Journal Constitution}
With legs stretched out before me, I watch as the waves crash onto the sand, ever closer as time goes by. The baby seagull waits, patiently, knowing that the rolling foam shall soon retreat to the ocean. As it does, she rushes to dig into the wet sand in search of her afternoon snack. The boundary of the ocean drew closer and closer, but baby seagull instinctively knows it: It can only go so far. There is hardly a place on Earth where I feel God’s presence more than at the beach. It may be Continue Reading
Book Review: The Quest Study Bible – Five Stars!
Why would children have to pay for the sins of their ancestors? Why did Moab have to be destroyed? Why would Egyptians speak Hebrew, the language of Cannan? The longer I dig into the insightful tools of the new NIV Quest Study Bible, the more excited I get. I received an email from BibleGateway, inviting me and several other bloggers who are part of the BibleGateway blogger grid to review Zondevan’s new Study Bible. I read the email, and thought, “Why not?” A study Bible nerd, I could Continue Reading
Remembering 9-11 – Tragedy Changes Everything {The Atlanta Journal Constitution}
Sept. 11, 2001. I had just sat down at my desk after battling rush hour Atlanta traffic before getting to the office. I was sorting through my emails when I heard a commotion outside my office, but I did not bother to look up from the computer screen. It wasn't until a co-worker stopped at my door, her face pale as a ghost, that I stopped what I was doing. "Come. An airplane flew into the Twin Towers." I jumped to my feet and joined her as we rushed to the conference room, which was full of Continue Reading
Blind to God’s Purpose in the Storm {Recharge Wednesday LINKUP}
A father loses his job. Again. An airplane falls, killing a loved one. A young mother loses her baby. A fire assails a home where a couple and their three young children sleep. The children escape, but their mother dies. Hurricane Dorian devastates the beautiful Bahamas, leaving a pathway of death, loss and unimaginable pain behind. “I don’t understand the purpose in this. Do you?” A dear friend asked me this very question recently. This sweet and godly woman has gone through unimaginable Continue Reading
