During my quiet time a couple of weeks ago, I came across a startling verse in Exodus about sojourners. “You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt” Exodus 23:9 ESV The heart of a sojourner. The phrase stopped me in my tracks. NIV says, “the heart …
No Greater Love by Rebekah Gyger
Trust can be hard. For someone like myself, with both social anxiety and depression, it is an active choice to take someone at their word rather than read into what our imagination thinks they might actually be saying. It is at times a conscious decision to trust that a friend—or even a family member—truly cares for us, when we feel …
Sometimes God Says, “Hey, Remember Me?”
From the mouth of my babe… I was chatting with one of my daughters yesterday, and we were commiserating on the break-neck speed at which our lives are changing. As we talked about all the “irons in the fire” of her life, mine, and a few other family members, she looked at me and said, “Sometimes I think life gets …