When Our Lives Feel Like a Whirlwind

When Our Lives Feel Like a Whirlwind

I went to a Beth Moore – Living Proof Live once and she was teaching on Job. Can I tell you my heart sank. You know how it is. Bubbling with excitement you find your seat and just know God has a word for you. Then…you find out your word is going to come from the book of Job. Immediately I began to dread my life. I became convinced that some terrible calamity was about to…

Comforting is Often Quiet

Comforting is Often Quiet

I’m reading the book of Job in the Bible. This book tugs at my heart. It confounds me. It can make me indignant. It scares me! This caught my eye today, “…What miserable comforters you are!” 16:2 I tend to agree with Job. Job has had great tragedy in his life and his buddies are there for him, kinda.  Holy Spirit spoke this to my heart this morning. When deep tragedy happens to those around…

It Really is Who You Know that Matters

It Really is Who You Know that Matters

“It’s not what you know but who you know that really matters.” Have you ever made that statement? I have. I said it recently when my daughter changed jobs with the help of a recommendation from her friend.  I’m pretty sure that Lazarus and his sisters were depending on their connection to Jesus when Lazarus fell ill. He had dined in their home. Reading their story in John 11 feels like there is a closeness….

A Gate, A Shepherd, and His Sheep

A Gate, A Shepherd, and His Sheep

I don’t know a lot about sheep. To be honest, if God hadn’t called us sheep there is a good chance that I would know next to nothing about them now. I’m a city girl. Well, city for the my area. So when Jesus says He is the Gate for the sheep and the good Shepherd, I’m thinking, OK, so how does that work? How does that help me in my everyday walking around life? In John, chapter…