It’s hard to relinquish control. I hate to lose and I would rather fight til I drop than surrender. In some ways that’s a good thing. I need to have that “fighting” spirit to get through life. But that very same character trait of fighting perseverance has the negative flip side of stubborn […]
Psalms 23 is probably the most memorized Psalm in the Bible. He leads me beside still waters…He makes me lie down in green pastures. [Tweet “Sometimes- we just need to be #made to lie down! #greenPastures #Shepherd”] This verse J u M p E d in my head one day as I was trying […]
There’s a difference between grief, sadness, and depression, and falling into the quick sands of self-pity. Depression is being consumed with sadness- self pity is being consumed with our SELF. [Tweet “Don’t go near the quick sands of self pity; it will swallow you alive #selfpity “] After our daughter, Kristin, died, I traveled through […]
“A merry heart does good like a medicine. But a broken spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22 KJV A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength. Proverbs 17:22 NLT A cheerful disposition is good for your health; gloom and doom leave you bone-tired. Proverbs 17:22 […]