Studying Ishmael’s life and specifically his rejection reminds us that life is not always fair. Sometimes the people who should take care of us and protect us from the cruelties of the world fail to do. Other times, the people we love most are the very ones who inflict pain ...
Read More »Love Is A Friend Remembered
Memories – a blessing to those who have known. Birthed through many different adventures and emotions, they spring to life through a single word, a sound, a long forgotten aroma, or an obscure, fleeting thought as it skips through our minds, instantly propelling us into a distant space in time. ...
Read More »Parents are People Too
I sometimes wonder if people, when they grow up, forget how it was to be a kid. It is true that from the adult perspective, children’s problems can seem very small comparatively, but that is looking at the problem from the wrong angle. When your world is small, the problems ...
Read More »In the Place of Love
Imagine yourself in a beautiful, safe place of love. It is a place you feel valued and able to do anything. You are free to be creative and to be yourself. That place of love is where God intends for you to live. My heart-felt prayer is that you know what ...
Read More »God Not Only Hears, He Helps
And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? Genesis 16:13 In Genesis 16, we see Hagar’s life was affected by the decisions of the authorities above her who had ...
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