You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. —Psalm 56:8 NLT Messages have been tossed into the sea since before the time of Christ, many to chart ocean currents but others as pleas for rescue or love. Recently, I read a fictitious seafaring message, a quote…

Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. —Revelation 19:7 As soon as I opened my eyes and realized the date, my mind traveled back 35 years to my wedding day, the start of what I dreamed would be a beautiful family life. I recalled…

“We are like common clay jars that carry this glorious treasure within, so that the extraordinary overflow of power will be seen as God’s, not ours.” —2 Corinthians 4:7 TPT What do you think of when you think of March? Spring being ushered in by sunny daffodils and fields of green? Or tricky leprechauns and lucky four-leaf clovers? Perhaps you envision the…

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. —Colossians 4:2 Long after the chocolate candy was depleted, I kept the heart-shaped container, a delightful box in a vintage pattern topped with a red lid and satin bow. I placed it in the center of the table and soon found myself jotting down prayer requests on slips of paper and dropping them inside.…

By Desiree Glass “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” —Genesis 8:22 Gray skies cast its gloom over me and frigid temperatures kept me captive inside my own home. The landscape, dead and devoid of any color except brown, caused me to question why anyone would like winter.…

By Desiree Glass That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. —2 Corinthians 12:10 Side lateral raises. Even hearing those three words brings pain, let alone actually doing them. Last February I started an exercise program that involves toning with hand weights three…

Who Are You: Where are you from and where are you going?  “On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.” (John 14:20) My friend was bubbling with excitement over her AncestryDNA results. As she shared her findings, I couldn’t help but wonder what my results would show. Would…

“… He marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him …” (Acts 17:26b-27a) With temperatures in the 60s, nothing could keep me from my walk that January afternoon. I circumvented cow pies and mud puddles as I traipsed through the field and pasture on my way to the water’s…

“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.” (Philippians 2:4, ESV) If you followed me on social media over the summer, you might have read my following posts this summer: June 20 – “A broken down car, a clogged drain, and a TV that won’t turn on. Not a good combination when…

Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years…