Bible study with the express purpose of encouraging, building up, and providing biblical curriculum to anyone who expresses interest. This includes prayer, specific Bible Studies, and layman biblical counseling.
We, each, are an amalgamation of our history/family and experiences. This unique combination makes us proud and centered. It shapes our perceptions and even drives our objectives. If we lost that, we would be robbed of part of our identity. We also love our independence and together with our identifiers, we form communities and connections….
The decision to move from New Mexico to California created an environment that would cause a lot of pain and suffering but my parents needed to move so that my dad could begin his new job as a public school teacher. They settled their small family in Redwood City where a suitable duplex would house…
Fear is noisy. It lists all of these facts and scenarios. It is dogged in it’s effort to get you to hear what it’s saying. But if you decide to surrender your life to the Most High and you bet everything on the Hope that He will resolve all things, you will never need to…
Gratitude is spiritual, it’s grounding, it brings the good back into focus, it transforms our vantage point and it helps bring balance to our mental health. Is it a denial of the challenges? Of course not. But it does not allow the hard things of this life to overwhelm the good. “Let the message of…
What if, in the middle of a confrontation with an opposing force, you choose, the seemingly least powerful weapon in your arsenal? Instinctively, we’d bypass it and move straight to the one we feel is more appropriate. The problem is, typically that response is reactive, rash, emotional, maybe unreasonable, could be retaliatory, may drop faith…
You are strongly committed to your life’s purpose. You love and you live with all that you have and living in this world, life requires all of it. Eventually, though, you will arrive at the end of your own power line. Life won’t decelerate in order for you and I to take a breather and…
Uncertainty is a gift. Its precariousness is perfect for faith. In fact, it’s beautiful in its unpredictability and uncontrollable nature. Don’t hold back. Run towards it with arms positioned to give it a fierce embrace. You may as well, there’s no room for tentativeness in this new life you accepted as a Christian. “For whatever…
Think about it, there must be higher loveDown in the heart or hidden in the stars aboveWithout it, life is a wasted timeLook inside your heart, I’ll look inside mine-Things look so bad everywhereIn this whole world, what is fair?We walk blind and we try to seeFalling behind in what could be-Bring me a higher…
Right? That is the very nature of Hope, to spark where it’s hopelessly dark and just begin to believe while it’s still pitchblack. Yes, there are varying shades, but dark is dark and my dark is the not the same as yours, what difference does it make? We both need hope. So, we have stories…
I write to convey my thoughts and my experiences to a virtual space in the hope that they land in a receptive place. • As a regular and ordinary person, I do not possess the ability to transport to you to a place that removes you from this world. I do, though, have the capability,…