Sitting in a familiar space, I expressed to our marriage counselors a desire for my husband to be more of a 'promise land’ thinker--like me--when it came to our marriage. I was grumbling that he seemed to only be able to focus on the day-to-day. Even though my husband...
Valerie L. McMahon
Because He Lives
Because He lives I can face tomorrow Because He lives all fear is gone Because I know, I know He holds the future And life is worth the living just because He lives Dressed up in a white bonnet and my prettiest pink dress with all the ruffles and...
When We Don’t Understand His Plan
Imagine with me for a moment that what you have been waiting for, for a very long time, has finally come. You are living the dream! But then the next day you are asked to give the dream up or to give away what you have received? What would you...
God is Good, Even When…
Have you ever had to endure the hurt caused by someone else’s mistake? If so, did you feel like no one knew you were hurting? Maybe you even felt abandoned by people you thought you could count on to care for you. Perhaps you just felt alone.
Even in the Waiting
Have you ever had to wait for something for a very long time? Are you still waiting even now? Waiting is so hard, isn’t it? Every period of waiting carries its own weight. It might feel like a ton of bricks and manifest as hopelessness that anything will ever come...