by Carol Hatcher
How to Play Our Roles
Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faith fully administering God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone…
Downpour
As I sit at my computer, I hear the rumbling of thunder. Rain is coming. I’m recording the evidence of God’s hand in my life. It’s overwhelming when I realize how much He has given me and how often His hand has guided me right to a blessing. My fingers fly across the keyboard…
How Will They Know?
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35 NIV Day breaks, and I roll out of bed. The house is still dark as…
Why, Lord?
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light;on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned. Isaiah 9:2 NIV I glide down the highway, the taste of Diet Coke and potato chips lingering. My thoughts are louder than the radio, so I turn the music…
Restoration
Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Psalm 51:12 NIV With the holidays over, I find myself in need of rest. Gifts have found new homes on shelves. Wreaths have returned to storage. Holiday dinnerware has been neatly stacked in out-of-the-way cabinets. Ornaments are…
O Holy Night
O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining, It is the night of our dear Saviour’s birth. As I sang this song I’ve sung hundreds of time, I got chills. I stood in the choir loft, but I was thousands of miles and years away. I was there that night Mary gave birth to…
Catching Birds
Come near to God and he will come near to you. James 4:8 NIV “Come back here!” I scolded my son as he darted across the Wal-mart parking lot. “But, Mommy I almost caught one,” he told me referring to the tiny birds always found hopping between the cars looking for cast-off French fries…
Can You Hear Me Now?
Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge. Mark 4:1 NIV “You won’t believe what happened,” my husband…
The Wait From Here…
“The wait from this point is 45 minutes.” Sound familiar? If you’ve been to any sort of amusement park lately, you know what I’m talking about. Most popular amusements have the wait time posted at the entrance giving you the option to wait or leave. You can evaluate the external factors such as temperature,…
Zzzzzzz…
The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber… Romans 13:11 NIV Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. I slam a hand on my alarm clock to halt the annoying blips. I nestle lower in the bed looking for the entrance to my dream. Nine minutes later, the maddening sound starts again. …