by Jodie Stevens | May 30, 2014 | Happiness, Humor |
A friend I’ve known since I was a baby sent me birthday present in the mail. It’s a ‘Flashlight Friend.’ He’s a little stuffed dog with a button near his heart. At night when you’re scared, you push him and he lights up. While examining this gift my husband remarked:...
by Jodie Stevens | May 29, 2014 | Patience |
“Waiting or ‘Way-yay-ting’ is the hardest part,” as Tom Petty so eloquently sings. We want what we want right now. And if we’re waiting on God, it’s even more difficult. With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not...
by Jodie Stevens | May 15, 2014 | Boundaries, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Fear and Anxiety, Hope |
In Psalm 68 we’re told that God is: “A father to the fatherless,” “A defender of widows,” and that He: “sets the lonely in families.” Sometimes abuse, addiction, infidelity, death, or dysfunction make it impossible for us to have a healthy relationship with our...
by Jodie Stevens | May 14, 2014 | Emotional Difficulties & Addiction |
In his commentary on Self-pity, Martin G. Collins points out some biblical examples of this destructive character trait: Cain kills his brother, Moses pleads with God to excuse him from leadership, Jonah gets swallowed by a whale, and Elijah asks God to strike him...
by Jodie Stevens | Apr 29, 2014 | Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Happiness, Hope, Patience |
Why it is that some people who endure suffering never seem to find peace and they leave this world defeated and broken; while others can turn similar hardships into their greatest victory? Their story becomes a bestseller; sometimes changing lives, laws, and history....
