God is Always With You

I want to be more faithful to this blog. I know the time between my posts is too long. I want to change that, but I need God’s help. These past few months have been some of the hardest of my life. Memories can be triggered by a song, by a picture or something someone […]

These are 2 of my favorite verses. There is so much strength and power in these words! Psalm 27, verse 1: The Lord is my light and my salvation–whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life–of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27, verse 3:  Though an army besiege me, my […]

I want to say, first and foremost, that death is a very difficult subject for me. My mother died suddenly when I was a few months into thirteen. She was a single mom to me and my sister. She worked hard and made a good living. She had no help from my father, she stood […]

Habits are hard to break. When we do something over and over, our brains and our bodies come to expect it. We start to feel less control and more controlled. We might want to end behaviors or patterns that we know hurt us. Or, we might want to start doing something new, maybe something we’re […]

We take pride in being independent, making our own decisions, using our own resources to help ourselves. We are quite happy not to ask anyone for help. Independence is not only highly valued, it’s required! It goes without saying that we should exhaust all of our options before asking a favor. God wants us to […]

You only live once isn’t true. We all will have a life after this one. Death in our bodies does not end our lives. Our eternal lives begin as soon as our bodies die. We all know that this life is temporary. Death is shocking, even when it’s expected. Death separates us from the people […]

The beginning of the year is an exciting time. You can literally turn the page to a time that you’ve never lived before. The past can’t be changed, but the present is full of opportunities to do what we haven’t been able to do before. Losing weight, eating better, making exercise a habit that lasts […]

Most people fear death. They fear the death of the people they love and they fear their own death. Death is our biggest obstacle. It’s a brick wall. The uncertainty, the never knowing, the way lives change in one dying moment. A close family friend died on December 16th. He had fought a long battle […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGaUmSbXJ-A the lyrics appear below the video; click “see more” to see the full lyrics 🙂 “That’s Why We Praise Him” is a song written by Tommy Walker, and in this case, performed by Rich Ochoa and the Maranatha! Promise band. It appears on “i Worship, A Total Worship Experience,” a double CD of Christian music. […]

God will do for you what no one else can–He will be there for you every day, every night, every hour, every minute. Anything that concerns you concerns Him! He knows all of the details of your life. He wants you to respond to Him by coming to Him. Pray! God hears you, whether you pray out […]