Hope is a powerful sentiment. There’s the type of hope that is a grasp through the uncertainty. It looks ahead through thick fog of ambiguity with fingers crossed that something might be out there that will be pleasing to them. Then there’s the type of hope that has a confident assurance. That assurance is not […]
Read More Hope For The BestI am content to believe that God knows what He’s doing. I am also getting to the place of contentment that there is a degree of mystery in understanding where He wants us to be at any given juncture. For one thing, I am sure that I have not always been where I needed to […]
Read More Right Where He Wants Us To BeI am not a subscriber to the sentiment that talk is cheap. I have a fair idea where it comes from. There’s a lot of talk about how bad something is without anything done about it. Politicians talk about what they will do to make things better. People vote for them and are disappointed to […]
Read More Challenging The Way Things ArePeople have been patient with me. Not everyone, obviously. Some just did not have the time to wait for me to get it. Some were frustrated that as they saw it, someone like me should have already been behaving and operating at the standard. I was not, though. Part of that was ongoing struggles with […]
Read More Patience – A Priceless GiftThere are some days. The truth of the matter is, it’s all about God. It is really all Him. Yet there are some days and indeed some weeks where there is a greater appreciation that it is not in my own strength that I can make it. The pressures can get a bit much and […]
Read More His Grace Will See You ThroughIt’s weird when I think about. There’s really nothing about me that would make me someone who is naturally inclined to enjoy prayer meetings. Growing up in a church background I genuinely found prayer and prayer meetings to be among the most boring parts of the Christian practices to which I was exposed. I remember […]
Read More Prayer, People and PersistenceRelationships are so crucial to developing as a human being. One of the aspects of those relationships is when people get together and work together on a project. The interactions and engagements that present the different aspects of people’s personalities and characters is so fascinating. That is evident when we get around to share life […]
Read More You Didn’t See That Coming – A Word on the Group DynamicRedeemed. I love it. There’s a hymn of the same title and it’s the epitome of the term ‘uplifting’. It’s a waltz kind of tune that I can literally imagine a little child being swung up by a parent and the child giggling at the fun of it. Even as the last line of the […]
Read More What The Redeemed Have To SayAmong other themes that captured my interest was the theme of streams. A group of us were considering how the theme of water is prevalent throughout scripture. There’s the connection to the Spirit that is evident and what water does in life as well is something that was highlighted and I took much encouragement from […]
Read More Streams … for RestoringConsider this scenario: It’s a Monday evening and you receive a phone call from a close friend (let’s call her Sarah). They inform you that a mutual friend of yours (let’s call him, John) is about to leave the country and you’re unlikely to see that person for a long time. So you and Sarah […]
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