This past week was challenging. I have a lifelong habit of not being able to ask for help when I need it. In fact, I tend to avoid showing weakness whenever possible. It’s not who I want to be. It’s not something that fits my personality or beliefs. While it’s fine to be someone who…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Breakdown
Jack Kramer is 40, divorced, and has been sober for nearly a year. Overcome with guilt for the breakup of his family, he cannot yet face his sons. Still on shaky ground, for the last several months he has immersed himself in reviving the 1970 Plymouth Road Runner that he drove in his youth. When…
Read more First Chapter Fridays! Jack Kramer’s Journey by Frank Adkins
Sometimes, it’s difficult to be nice. These days, it seems the trolls are out in full force, just waiting for an opportunity to cut you down. Being a compliant individual by nature, I have been very patient with some of the ridiculous things I’ve seen and heard since the pandemic began. I’ve tried to read…
Read more Today’s Pondering~You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry…
Where You go, I’ll go Where You stay, I’ll stay When You move, I’ll move I will follow You. Chris Tomlin~I Will Follow I often think about the words to this song and wonder if I could be that devoted to my God. I claim that I am and I certainly want to be; but…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Somebody bring me some water…
So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” ~John 8:17 NKJV~ Holding onto opinions about a person based on something they did in the past is not walking in love. Yet, there are so…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Love changes everything…or at least it should
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…
But He was speaking of the temple of His body. ~John 2:21NIV~ I am overweight. I have been for many years and only recently have come to accept that this is a part of me that I cannot change. God can change this; I cannot. You see, part of my weight comes from years of…
Read more Today’s Pondering~From the inside out…