As my sleepy feet move across the blacktop, I see the hill. When you live about seventy feet above sea level, what lays before you seems more than just an incline. Most days the hill leaves me breathless and not in a good way. It challenges me in a way that reminds me of my inadequacies. If hills could talk, I’m sure it has been conversing with the breeze and asking it to be quiet,…
“O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way? How long must I struggle with anguish in my soul, with sorrow in my heart every day?…” Psalm 13:1-2 (NLT) Did you wake up this morning feeling forgotten? Oh, how I understand that feeling. Just like you, there have been seasons where I have felt so invisible. As my fingers tap away, I am listening to Hunter Hayes’…
As I sit reading from my Bible app – YouVersion – a verse in Isaiah stuck out to me as so relevant to where we are today. “I have equipped you for battle though you didn’t even know me”.1 Isaiah is talking about King Cyrus and the prophesy God gave him that Cyrus would be the one given the right to restore Jerusalem and the Temple. King Cyrus was a pagan king and would not understand…
When I joined Compel Training online over a year ago, I didn’t know that I would find a kindred soul in writing or that she would live in Louisiana. Ellen has comforted me, cheered me, critiqued me and loved me as a dear friend should. The first time we met over cornbread and biscuits at Cracker Barrel in Alexandria, we became fast friends. She’s a tiny little thing that is big in compassion and Jesus….
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