Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls. ~Proverbs 25:28 NKJV~ I used to carry myself like a tough girl…always cussing people out and daring anyone to call me out of my name. I was angry about everything and I wanted to make sure that everyone knew…
Read more Today’s Pondering~To each, His own…
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives…” ~Isaiah 61:1 NKJV~ There is probably no other reason that I have called upon my God more than to…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Love and Happiness
A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. ~Luke 7:37 NIV~ I used to wonder sometimes, will there ever be a time when I don’t feel like this woman? Having come through a long…
Read more Today’s Pondering~All things alabaster…
The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about. ~Luke 18:34 NIV~ It’s funny how pain brings out the absolute worst in people. At a time when the commonality of our suffering should bring us together, the pain of loss…
Read more Today’s Pondering~We meet again…
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7 (NIV) I believe that the worst thing we can do as Christians is to constantly preach a guilt-invoking message to those…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Heavy lifting…
Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. ~ James 4:11 NKJV~ The word of the day seems…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Throwing stones…
So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat. ~1 Samuel 1:7 NKJV~ It doesn’t always trip me up the way it did today. The memory of losing baby after baby no longer hangs over me…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Oh, how He loves…