8While the people of Israel were still at Rephidim, the warriors of Amalek attacked them. 9Moses commanded Joshua, “Choose some men to go out and fight the army of Amalek for us. Tomorrow, I will stand at the top of the hill, holding the staff of God in my hand.” 10So Joshua did what Moses had …
Out of the Chaos
Inspiration for living outside of the chaos.
Today I rejoice in the sun. It shines from the sky, warming the earth, lighting the day. 14Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years. 15Let these lights in the sky shine down on the earth.” And …
Today was a windy, cold day in southwest Florida. Waves pounded the shorelines, sand blew across the beach filling my shoes, cold penetrated my clothes while the wind wreaked havoc with my hair. Too loud for conversation, I walked in silence as I scoured the beach for treasures. Even with all the wind and resulting …
I am grateful today for family. I had meaningful interactions with all three of my children, I reunited with my youngest sister and tomorrow my mom will join us in Florida. Family has many meanings. Sometimes it is the people we share biological beginnings with, other times it is the people who share our lives …
As I sat down to write this post, the phrase “the sun comes up, it’s a new day dawning” ran through my mind. Being sure it is a song, I googled the phrase and sure enough, it is! I read the lyrics and quickly realized the song put into words what God has been laying …
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1 There is an undeniable link between faith and hope. Faith is the confidence in our expectation. Without faith, there is no hope. Without hope…well, we are not truly alive. I do not …
4But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. 5God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children. 6And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into …
My first dream, the hope of my heart from a very young age was to one day be a wife and mother. I planned for it, I imagined it, I wanted it. Did I confidently expect it? Perhaps. Until one day in the sixth grade, a classmate told me she didn’t know who would ever …
Hope: looking forward with confident expectation. As I scour the scriptures to build a theology of hope, I find that hope is always linked to Jesus’ death on the cross. It is his death that secures my future. I am guaranteed eternity with him in heaven and I look forward to it with confident expectation. …
HOPE. What does that word mean to you? If you were to put your level of hope right now on a continuum, where would you fall if ONE is without hope and TEN is overflowing with hope? Scripture is not silent about hope. In fact, it seems I have every reason to live with overflowing, …
Out of the Chaos 