"I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry." (Psalm 40:1 NIV)Writing is not always easy. Sometimes I just have to wait and wait and wait. The ideas don't come. There is no motivation even though I am watching and hoping and looking for both...
Isaiah 61:3 "And provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 "But since we belong to the day, let us be self controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet." NIVFrank was enjoying his gallop along the winding road every bit as much as we were. The evening...
Exodus 20:12 "Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you."Psalm 139:13-14a "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully...
Genesis 4: 7 "If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it." NIVAt work there is a white pail with a large red and black label which reads:...
Jeremiah 17:7-8 "But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; the leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year...
Isaiah 46:3-4 "Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel, you whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and...