When I saw the word for Five Minute Friday today was “Celebrate”, two things instantly came to mind. The first was that great song by Kool and the Gang, “Celebration” (I know but remember I was only 20 in 1980 when it was released.) and the second, thank goodness fall is on its way. An odd combination wouldn’t you say? As I sit here with that song whirling around in my head like a beautiful…
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…
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