When someone addresses you as “beloved” it gets your attention, right? Who might that be who calls you beloved; a parent perhaps or maybe a spouse or a boyfriend? It’s a very endearing word, isn’t it, and one that can evoke an immediate emotional response. You lean in. You listen. You feel loved and cared […]
Living the Good Life During Distressing Times
A Prescription for The Good Life: Submit to God and be at peace with Him; in this way prosperity will come to you. Accept instruction from His mouth and lay up His words in your heart …pray to Him and He will hear you. What you decide on will be done and light will shine […]
God’s Timing for You in Twenty Twenty Two
Twenty – Twenty – Two God’s Timing for You Coming back home to Tallahassee, Florida, after our retirements was never a question. My husband and I just didn’t know when it would happen. In my daily conversations with God, he knew but didn’t share that with me. He just sent the right words about retirement […]
From Such Turn Away
The excerpt below is from a book titled From Such Turn Away: Warnings against Lesbianism, A Guide for Teen Girls and Young Adult Women (2012) by Dr. Trela N. Anderson. Although today’s girls and young women are bombarded with media images of romantic love, beauty, and all-around perfection, many of them are products of dysfunctional families characterized […]
From Such Turn Away pt. 2
The excerpt below is from a book titled From Such Turn Away: Warnings against Lesbianism, A Guide for Teen Girls and Young Adult Women (2012) by Dr. Trela N. Anderson. Description: Although today’s girls and young women are bombarded with media images of romantic love, beauty, and all-around perfection, many of them are products of […]
From Rebel to Redeemed
What does it mean to have a rebel heart? Is it an internal or external manifestation? Being rebellious is a choice, so is being “spirit led.” The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, helps us understand the concept of a rebel heart when he said, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and is extremely wicked; who can […]