Life among the roses can be a thorny affair.
The roses are beautiful, and we want to pick each one, but the thorns can cut us even as we reach for them.
Where is our security when even the ...
Spring … a time of rebirth and new life.
Yet, you don’t feel it. Winter still holds its harsh hand over your days, and all you can feel is the chill of January.
It’s time for you to come to ...
No one’s life runs perfectly smooth.
There are always bumps along the way. Hiccups. Those potholes that we try to avoid, and we slam into them anyway.
We slap our forehead with the palm of our ...
What’s in the way of your life?
What’s happened to you that keeps you from joy? From success? From the happiness that you feel you deserve?
What has crushed your dreams? Something so unfair ...
We know about Jesus and the stone across the face of his tomb.
And Lazarus … just roll the stone away, Jesus commanded. It’s blocking the HEALING SALVATION OF THE LORD.
In the Old Testament, a ...
What’s got you bothered?
What keeps you awake at night and makes your eyes burn when the sun bursts through your window?
What’s the heavy load you think you can hardly bear another day?
To ...
A routine day became a life-threatening disaster for Sheena McIntosh and her son in August of 2019.
Hurricane Dorian smashed across the Bahamas with a Category 5 fist, ripping the roof from her ...
Megan and Sam were best friends in high school in Florida. They dreamed of becoming professional chefs one day, and after graduation, they seemed to be on their way.
Megan moved into the local ...
We love the beauty in the butterfly.
The chrysalis from which it comes is less lovely.
The thing is, we can’t get the butterfly without the chrysalis. The butterfly starts out as a caterpillar, ...
What can a baby bird do?
How can such a small creature rescue itself, much less anyone else?
In a Guideposts story, Teddy Flory shares a time when exactly that happened.
Teddy had suffered ...
In a museum, a marble-inlaid floor had a discussion with a marble statue standing proudly under a glass dome.
“What right do you have to stand in the sun? We are from the same quarry, and I am ...
Life bombards us.
Take Tiffany Haddish, actress and comedian.
She is a published author and an Emmy Award winner. She has risen to the top of her game.
Yet, Haddish spent years in foster care. She ...
What’s the storm cloud over your life?
What’s happened to you that’s so bad you know you can’t recover?
Did a storm smash your house, and you have lost memories you can’t replace?
Have ...
Life among the roses can be a thorny affair.
The roses are beautiful, and we want to pick each one, but the thorns can cut us even as we reach for them.
Where is our security when even the ...
Spring … a time of rebirth and new life.
Yet, you don’t feel it. Winter still holds its harsh hand over your days, and all you can feel is the chill of January.
It’s time for you to come to ...
No one’s life runs perfectly smooth.
There are always bumps along the way. Hiccups. Those potholes that we try to avoid, and we slam into them anyway.
We slap our forehead with the palm of our ...
What’s in the way of your life?
What’s happened to you that keeps you from joy? From success? From the happiness that you feel you deserve?
What has crushed your dreams? Something so unfair ...
We know about Jesus and the stone across the face of his tomb.
And Lazarus … just roll the stone away, Jesus commanded. It’s blocking the HEALING SALVATION OF THE LORD.
In the Old Testament, a ...
What’s got you bothered?
What keeps you awake at night and makes your eyes burn when the sun bursts through your window?
What’s the heavy load you think you can hardly bear another day?
To ...
A routine day became a life-threatening disaster for Sheena McIntosh and her son in August of 2019.
Hurricane Dorian smashed across the Bahamas with a Category 5 fist, ripping the roof from her ...