It’s no secret that I have spent years battling depression…on and off. It seems to run in my family…so I know a great deal of it is genetic. But just like any other disorder, there are usually multiple causes. I dealt with the emotional issues of my depression a couple of years ago. I don’t […]
And the winners of a copy of Glynnis Whitwer’s book “I Used to be So Organized” are… Evelyn Smith Cassandra S Charlotte Askew Ronda Blevins Julie Howard Veronica Bradley Kati Stewart Biggs Toni Stehling Yes there are eight!!! Please email me your mailing address at stephkevinryan@hotmail.com as soon as possible and the fantastic ladies at […]
“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1 John 4:9-10 There was nothing […]
For as long as I can remember my closet has looked like this. I have cleaned it up and vowed never to let it get dirty again only to find myself wading through a sea of clothes less than a week later. Yes, I’m messy, and I know it. I have a messy closet. A […]
The smell is different. The smell on the city bus. The smell at the resource center where I work. The smell at the shelter. At first I noticed the smell, but not anymore. I guess my nose became accustomed to it. Much the way those I work with become accustomed to poverty. It is part […]
Stillness. It is the place inside a heart left to sit when pain has been released. The place that yearns to be filled up when it no longer writhes with hurt. It seems that once we let go of something we would jump for joy….that we would be willing participants in moving forward. Yet […]
“My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in […]
“My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains.They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place. Whoever found them devoured them;their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture, the Lord, the hope […]
I love the word lovely. It takes me beyond the usual realm of the word “love”, and into a place where love can be viewed. Manifested as a display of His splendor. As Psalm 84:1 shares, “How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty!” Almighty God, how lovely are the places we choose to […]
“This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Hebrews 8:10 A covenant has been cut. Between you and the Lord. […]
