“It’s not what happens to us, but how we react to it.” When my pastor said those simple words yesterday, they resonated in my spirit because I have been a very reactionary person in the past. I don’t like to use the words, “I fight back”, but if so am being real with myself, then…

A little drawing inspired by yesterday morning’s sermon… My pastor used the illustration that peace is a lot like a coat. We can say we are cold when we make our way outside in the frigid air, yet our coat can be found hanging in the closet. (I could totally relate to this illustration because…

Wanted to do a video today, but my phone died because I forgot to charge it last night. I’ve had a bad headache all week. It comes. It goes. It comes again. It goes again. I refuse to allow it to stop me from having good days, so I push through the pain and darkness…

Sunday, I wrote down these words from the sermon. “How we love one another matters.” As I sat down early with my Bible to study and draw a picture of what God put in my heart, I glance over at the left corner of my desk. There sits my little lamp that I turn on…

“If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God’s will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.” -Dr. Martin Luther King

We can strive for many goals on this side of eternity, but each one of them will pass away. Lord, help us to strive today and in the days to come to discipline our bodies and minds for an imperishable crown…that heavenly reward, that will not pass away. A crown that never fades… “Don’t you…