Pain unites across every category of difference, including age. We have teenagers to eighty-somethings there. Pain doesn't discriminate; everyone is truly equal. Pain reminds us of our frailties, and that everyone will suffer them if they grow old enough. We have such interesting conversations, nearly all about the different places that hurt. There is no... Continue Reading →
Reaching For My Savior’s Hand: What Do You See?
Image Credit: Katie Mukhina @ Unsplash In the darkness of pain that won’t relent, I reach for my Savior’s hand of mercy and grace. I seek to feel His loving presence surround me, Bringing light and hope into this despairing space. I spill words of need and struggle to Him, Reaching my hand toward my... Continue Reading →
When Everything Seems to Go Bottoms Up, You Have to Be Your Own Advocate
I feared having a tooth extracted, but the tooth was cracked and could not be saved. I had it pulled two weeks ago, and I am still dealing with a dry socket. I may have to change dentists because, after seeing me for the dry socket once, the dentist now tells me to use dry... Continue Reading →
Uniting Our Physical Sight with Our Spiritual Sight Makes the World Clearer to “See”
Image Credit: Jeff Hardi @Unsplash Julia wanted the bandages removed so badly, for the world seemed so dangerous without her eyesight. She worried that someone could hurt her, and she couldn't give an account of their appearance to anyone. She'd learned to watch people like a hawk because she had suffered from mistaking charm and... Continue Reading →
The Healing Power of a Touch: A Devotional
Luke 5: 12-15 While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am... Continue Reading →
The Healing Power of Colors!
Photo Challenge from Mindlovemisery's Menagerie On cold, chilly days when the sun plays hide and seek with the clouds, I suffer from the grayness that freezes my heart and seeps inside my soul. But a trip to the local museum is just the healing medicine I need. As the colors thaw my heart and lift... Continue Reading →
Glad for a Break So I Can Heal and Get My Life Back
We are on Spring Break this week from my graduate classes. I finished teaching just as I contracted Covid and then spent five days in the hospital. So, this week is a welcome chance to rest my body. I have missed three weeks of classes, but I did keep up some of the reading, and... Continue Reading →
Take Heart! Jesus Has Got You!
Luke 8: 40-48 As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When they all denied it,... Continue Reading →
On the Road Again Soon: Hallelujah!
With our tax refund, we have paid for our trip, which will begin in the middle of May. I love it when the whole trip is paid for before we leave. I don't have to worry while traveling about missing paying the bills on the first of the month. This time last year, my life... Continue Reading →
Taking Jesus at His Word: Sunday Devotion
John 4: 46-53 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was... Continue Reading →
Help from Heaven 