Somedays you end up in a battlefield fighting on your knees. This was one of those days. My phone started to ding and I picked it up to read a very discouraging message. Someone I loved was in distress. Just a few days earlier, my friend had been released from the hospital after battling COVID….
“Lord, I need grace I don’t have.” I sat on the couch in his office and silently prayed for God to help me to respond kindly. Across from me sat my boss who was a Christian man, and I worked at a Christian school. Over the course of several weeks, he had questioned my capabilities, misrepresented…
I had lunch with a friend this week who confessed she was battling the Christmas blues. She was hemming and hawing about putting up her tree, and she hadn’t wrapped one Christmas present. This year has been hard for her family, and she just isn’t feeling very merry and bright. I reached across the table…
“Hear my prayer, O Lord; listen to my plea! Answer me because you are faithful and righteous…. Listen to my cry for mercy; in Your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.” (Psalm 143:1, NLT & NIV) I heard from my friend this week. She’d been silent for a few days. I shared some hard things that our…
I haven’t had any words for a while to share. I had to ask God to help revive me from the dead. My weary heart is just plain tired of all the heavy stuff that never seems to get any better. I fall on my knees and cry out to God with tears running down…
Lately I’ve spent a lot of time worrying about my tomorrow. I fear a dark cloud is looming over the horizon of my life, and I have no idea how to make the blue sky appear again. A kind of cold prickly apprehension has crept into my soul and made me dread turning the calendar…