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...
by Jodie Stevens | May 16, 2017 | Boundaries, Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Fear and Anxiety, Happiness, Hope |
You word is a lamp on my feet, a light on my path” (Psalm 119). In a previous piece I wrote about how listening to too many opinions can make it hard to hear God’s voice. This dovetails with another thing that can drown out God’s voice; an...
by Jodie Stevens | Apr 24, 2017 | Happiness, Hope, Love |
When I was a child I loved reading The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams 1922). It’s a story about a child’s toy that longs to be ‘Real.’ “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out...
