You are our God.
And in our darkest midnight, Your light radiates and cloaks our personal world with the dawning of hope and peace. Your love creates a clean heart in the one who is longing for restoration. Your love is a song in our night — a song for the suffering.
Your love is embodied in the Christ Child — Jesus.
Emmanuel.
Read More
God’s love is like that. As His children, we are sealed in His covenant love — a covenant which can never be broken.
And like the river that courses across the mountain valleys or laps at the marsh along our coastal plains, God’s love is endless, swirling around our boulders of difficulty and carving out beautiful monuments of His faithfulness.
Read More
But You are teaching me to focus — to see You with me always, in all circumstances, in all of my difficult places. You are awakening my heart to see that out of brokenness, lavish grace is released and beauty can sincerely rise from the ashes.
Read More
“Now is the time for my Son.”
“For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring; They will spring up among the grass like willows by the watercourses.” ~ Isaiah 44:3-4
God recognized the parched spirits, the thirst of those longing to know Him. He felt their hopelessness. He wept over their brokenness.
Read More
Teach us how to seek You with our whole heart. You promise that when we seek You, we will find You. When You tell us to seek Your face, stir within us obedience to respond, “Your face Lord, will I seek.” We want to know You more. Reveal Yourself to us fully. Open our eyes to see You in our midst.
Read More
I thought of my own winter season. Evidence of fruit and God’s faithfulness abounds, yet at times the fruit seems to be leftover, rather than fresh and new. Could it be that as I lift my hands to heaven like the limbs of the apple tree, the Light of the One I love will break through the canopy of shadows and illuminate His beauty within me?
Read More
For me, especially right now, your grace sustains me. Maybe for someone else it is courage or peace or hope. Maybe it’s joy. All of these things are the perfect gift from You waiting to be unwrapped to meet a need.
But it’s up to us to unwrap them.
Read More
Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference
Offering hope, healing, and freedom from your crushing pain.
Learn to be fully aware of the Lord's presence in your life with my new resource,