BREAK THE CHAIN Saying “I Love You” and “I’m Sorry” (An excerpt from the book “Of Life, Love and Family”) From the moment his first-born came into the world He wasn’t quite prepared It was much more than being unsure and scared He never learned from his own mom and dad How to verbalize love [...]

There will be days when we are too sick to cook, too busy to clean, or too tired to even think! We know how quickly our lives can become tuned upside down due to an illness, an operation, a death, or a new baby. Daily maintenance and smart planning is how we can avoid hunger, [...]

“Your Mom never yelled at you?” Asked my puzzled 9-year old son one day I was talking to him and to his 6-year old brother about my mother, who neither of them got to meet on this side of heaven. Thinking back on that day, I still feel the sting of failure when I remember [...]

The love of God is not based on what we have, what we do, or what we achieve in life. His immense love is not determined by our behavior, our attitude or our conduct. The love of God is not dependent on our personal background, our birth status, or our social standing. God’s love is [...]

One of the quotes of Shannon Ethridge that I read in her book Every Woman’s Battle was this: “who I really am isn’t the Shannon the world sees, but the person my family sees.” Don’t we all have a tendency to put on a smile and be all polite when there are those around we [...]

2 Corinthians 1: 3-4 (NIV) Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It’s a [...]

The sun has broken into the horizon, the wind is cold and misty. Oh, what a beautiful morning, Lord. As a song goes “Great is Thy faithfulness… morning by morning, new mercies I see…” (Hymn: Great is Thy Faithfulness). It is also written in Your Word: “They are new every morning, great is Your faithfulness” [...]

Being Confronted With Truth Any time we receive new information, we have to reconcile that information with the rest of our knowledge base. Oftentimes, people find this reconciliation unnerving. Many times, they reject the new insight because it challenges the beliefs they have become accustomed to. If they allowed themselves to look at this new [...]

Compassion, understanding, humility, and mercy. All these things seem to be very lacking in today’s Faith circles. And one has to wonder why? Do we not understand what we read when we read the Scripture? We open a book filled with people who were flawed, did horrible wicked things, yet had hearts that were seeking [...]

This morning, as I got ready to take a shower, I took a long look at myself in the mirror. Invisible to much of the world, with no noticeable difference between my right and left chest area when I am dressed, I glanced at the space, left behind after the mastectomy. At the time, I [...]