Don’t Ever Quit, Just Keep It Simple! – 2 Tim. 4:2 Don’t you just wish you had tattooed this on your arm earlier in your life?  I have so much junk – not treasures – just junk, and I’ve only allowed those ‘things’ to increase as I’ve aged. We need to make our lives simple, so we can serve the mighty God that made us.  Jesus, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords…yes, the One and only, walked around with the clothes on His back. That was it!(I never noticed a suitcase in any of

Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid. Matthew 14:27 What is courage: being strong, standing up when you need to, chasing off the lions and tigers, living life with great bravery, or living life with God? I have always been such a wimp: afraid of my mother, afraid of hurting someone’s feelings, afraid of messing up, afraid of not being good enough, afraid of ?????????????????????? This is really not the way God intended for us to live. Fear is a killer, and it keeps us from

Drop everything and listen, listen as I speak: Psalms 95:7 When do you listen? When someone else is talking or are you just waiting so you can jump in at the first possible moment. Do we talk more than we listen? I KNOW I DO! Do I ever get quiet long enough for God to speak to me? There is so much noise today. Right now on my “quiet cove” are construction crews. Right now on my cove are the loudest birds ever. (Sorry, Lord, some of them are so loud even though they are precio

Oh! let me rise in the morning and live always with you. Psalms 139:18 Where do I go but to the Lord. Where do any of us go now? Our world has been turned upside down. There is illness, riots, unrest, confusion, and calamity, but there is always Jesus! Yes, He is always with us. If you look in the Living Word of God, you will see history repeating itself. We have been getting into trouble since the beginning when there was only two of us! What’s wrong with us? We are all sinn

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 This verse makes it clear that the fear comes from the devil, but God gives us power, love, and brains (for sure power and love). As we get older, the fear thing can really take over if we let it. Day to day living is challenging, and we can fear some of the most simple things in life! But, even though we have to fight the fear, the power and love can overflow. God wants us to