You’re invited to a feast along with millions of others. you have a choice of going there or cooking at home. You ask, “What’s on the menu?” The answer: hot dogs and cotton candy (basically sugar filled with air). You know that if you eat the hot dogs and cotton candy you will be sick,… Read More Day 238- Thankful to feast on Hope
During the first couple of months of the shelter-in-place directive, I found my heart stirred by the magnitude of people who were out of work and how that would affect them and their families. I also became aware of people I knew who had become ill with COVID-19, and concern rose up in my heart… Read More Day 236- Thankful God helps us notice the needy
Have you ever noticed that you can’t have a torch of Darkness? Torches are always light. The closest thing I can think of to a torch of darkness is a very dim flashlight or putting your phone on 0% light; you can see it in a dark room but if you walk outside into the… Read More Day 228- Thankful that Light overcomes darkness
Does it ever seem that things are moving around you at a dizzying rate and you can’t even get your bearings? Do you feel you’re enveloped in darkness, and you don’t even know where God is, so how could you focus on Him or find Him? Whatever we wish to attain, we must aim for… Read More Day 213- Thankful that God sees us and wants us to find Him
Recently my son has started teaching one of the young teens from our church how to play chess. This has caused me to remember my younger days when I used to play. I was in the chess club in junior high school. I remember, while playing an opponent, thinking to myself, “If I move this… Read More Day 205- Thankful to have a voice with the King of the Universe
I remember as a child getting to go to McDonald’s and eating a regular hamburger and small fries; it was a huge treat for me as it almost never happened. Mom and Dad didn’t have a lot of money. They had to make what they did have stretch as far as they could, so eating… Read More Day 199- Thankful for the opportunity to share with others
When I was little, I was not afraid of rejection. I suppose that is a testament to my parents instilling in me a confidence that I was loved. Even after I was picked last for something in second grade, I still did not fear rejection. Even after I was made fun of a couple of… Read More Day 109 – Thankful that God never rejects me
I don’t like it any better than the next person that danger exists in this world. But if it has to exist, I sure am glad that there are ways of being warned. Danger can come from various sources and harm us in more or less visible ways. Sometimes we get very visible warnings, like… Read More Day 81 – Thankful for red flags
For quite some time a movement has been afoot pushing the ideology that there is NO absolute truth. They have been pushing it in our high schools and colleges as truth (huh? Isn’t there something wrong with this picture?), and a lot of young people just soak it up and don’t even think to challenge… Read More Absolute Truth
When I was a child, we used to sing a song that went something like this: “Be careful little eyes what you see, Be careful little eyes what you see, For the Father up above is looking down in love, So be careful little eyes what you see.” That’s what I sang. I sang the… Read More Love vs. Fear
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