I grew up in church, thinking God was an angry old man with a long white beard and an even longer stick, just waiting for me to make a mistake so He could give me a whack. I don’t know where I came up with this belief; I don’t remember anyone saying such a thing…
Author: Dara
Strange Things Happen
My daughter and I were taking a walk in our neighborhood. I began to hear a noise. I assumed it was a weed eater, until a small motorbike pulled up next to us. An exuberant young man jumped off the motorbike, whipped off his helmet and began jabbering. My daughter and I stood there, somewhat…
Go Do It
“Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.” Galatians 6:4, 5 (MESSAGE) God has uniquely…
Clothes
I remember clothes from different moments in my life; this is quite possibly a female attribute. When I go down memory lane I tend to remember what I was wearing while I was “there.” I still “see” a blue and green plaid dress I wore as a very young girl. One day I was wearing…
It’s Time to Live the Free Life
I read something funny on the Internet and was snickering. In my spirit, I “heard” the Lord ask, “When your kids were little, what’s the thing you wanted to see them doing most?” “Laughing,” I answered, without missing a beat. When my kids were babies, toddlers, teens, and yes, even today, there is nothing better than…
We Are In Good Hands
“The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as are the watercourses; He turns it whichever way He wills.” Proverbs 21:1 – AMPC My first vivid memory of this verse is when I was in high school at age 16. I was going to a Christian school where you worked at your own…
Do You Want To Get Well?
John 5. Jesus was in Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, at the Pool of Bethesda. This wasn’t a backyard pool to go for a swim or work on a tan. This was a pool where sick people congregated. Ever so often an angel came to stir the water; and whoever got into the water first…
God is…
I grew up in church and somewhere along the way I developed some incorrect beliefs about God. Whether I was taught, or just caught these things on my own, I am unsure; but God’s Word has done some serious weeding in my mind. I was taught, “God is sovereign.” This is true, but I heard…
The Moment of Grace
“No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13 (NIV) When temptation comes, our enemy…
Faith To Obey
“So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men (human philosophy), but in the power of God.” Corinthians 2:5 (AMPC) Our culture says: 1) hear, 2) understand, 3) do. God says: 1) hear, 2) do, 3) understand. Some of us have been taught we must understand something before we choose to do…