Darkness Before the Dawn

This has been helpful for me to remember especially when I make a mistake. There are times when it is easier to feel like the caterpillar especially after a error is made and self defeat is allowed to set in replacing our real value before God.  The Master will always help us get through hard times

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Sometimes you just have to stop for a moment and look at life in general and ask where your focus is.  This week several people have come to me and said all they see is trouble, problems and no where to turn to.  I guess I have been thinking a lot myself lately, with everyone around me struggling so hard, and with jobs closing everywhere, farmers going bankrupt, and people losing hope.  

I just wanted to send a reminder out for those who are struggling this week or feelin... Read More

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Ultimate hope

"Having ultimate hope does not mean we will always be rescued from proximate problems, but we will be rescued from everlasting death! Meanwhile, ultimate hope makes it possible to say the same three words used centuries ago by three valiant men. They knew God could rescue them from the fiery furnace, if He chose. "But if not," they said, nevertheless, they would still serve Him!" (Dan. 3:18.)    —Neal A.... Read More

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Daily Hope

This thought will help to focus better on a personal purpose and meaning to life.


Daily hope is vital, since the "Winter Quarters" of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land... Those with true hope often see their personal circumstances shaken, like kaleidoscopes, again and again. Yet with the "eye of... Read More

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 RUN THROUGH THE RAIN

A little girl had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful red haired, freckle faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over the top of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the earth it has no time to flow down the spout. We all stood there under the awning and just inside the door of the Walmart.

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