Reflections

His plans are our guarantee

I had a God moment this morning, as I was reading from the Life Bible devotion app, this scripture and image just attracted my attention. With our new year 2026, we get an opportunity to consider whose plan we want to follow. Will our steps be directed by our own thoughts, opinions, world, culture? Will…

Truth

Current culture would say that truth is whatever we want it to be. I saw a recent movie clip that showed Jack Nicholson raging at Tom Cruise with a statement.”you can’t handle the truth!!!” We can all relate to that statement, right? In the world, your truth and my truth can be dependent on our…

Grace

Grace is defined as kindness, a few synonyms of grace include majesty, elegance, blessing and favor. A few days ago, our sweet tabby cat Nemo was playing with ornaments on our Christmas tree. I felt like it was Providence that he chose the shining silver ornament he fixated on with the word, Grace. As Nemo…

Love first

Loving people does not always come easy. Our expectations of others can cloud receiving love from people. Our thoughts start in the mind. It doesn’t mean those thoughts are true and as a result, we can have people around us that love us, but we can feel unable to receive the love. Past experiences of…

Gratitude: Look at Nature

Nature has always fascinated me. Ever since I was a child, watching worms dig out of the mud or having a ladybug land on my arm, as I was pulling weeds, or even just watching a monarch butterfly land on the butterfly bush in my parents yard. Fascinated, and in wonder at how God created…

Blackbird fly

This morning, as I was letting my senior chocolate Labrador retriever run around the yard, a huge crowd of blackbirds was in my trees. There were so many that even though 2/3 of them flew away, there were still many remaining perched in my tall trees. These particular black birds are not crows, they are…

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