by Jodie Stevens | Jun 19, 2017 | Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Happiness, Hope |
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (Psalm 139:13-14). I recently took a personality test on temperament and scored a...
by Jodie Stevens | Jun 14, 2017 | Choices, Hope, Love, Patience |
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness” (Jeremiah 31:3). My little world was bright and white as the sun reflected off the snow that rare Alaska morning. I sensed a presence looking down at me; watching me as I played in...
by Jodie Stevens | Jun 8, 2017 | Boundaries, Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Happiness, Hope |
“For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world” (1 Timothy 6:7). I never realize how much stuff I have until it’s time to move it all. What used to fit in the back of my pickup now requires a moving truck the...
by Jodie Stevens | Jun 4, 2017 | Boundaries, Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Hope, Love |
“When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” (John 5:6) Mental illness, addiction, and other traumas plague many families including my own. When I chose to recover it was a...
by Jodie Stevens | Jun 1, 2017 | Hope |
My husband and I love hiking together. We’ve visited over 60 national parks in the time we’ve been married. While gazing in awe at the Grand Canyon from Cape Final; frightfully looking down at Yosemite Valley from Taft Point; staring in wonderment at the...
