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Tag Archives: Living by Faith

Confidence in the face of our greatest fears

Let not your hearts be troubled.  Believe in God; believe also in me… And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever…even the Spirit of truth… I will not leave you as orphans…he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I […]

May 31, 2017 Facing fear, Living by Faith Leave a comment

Requisite to Encouragement

Encouragement, whether you’re extending it or receiving it, requires faith. Ability to encourage is contingent on believing that what will be is more than what is now.  It takes vision, hope in what is yet unseen.  For faith is the stuff of things hoped for, things not visible, things yet to be… If I have […]

March 19, 2016 encouragement, Living by Faith, my story, transitions 5 Comments

The Only Thing that Counts

How do you measure the worth of a day? What’s your criterion for ‘a good day’? Most of my life I’ve kept journals—recording happenings, feelings, revelations, and just plain history.  They’ve become repositories of words that track my life.  When I was young I wrote of actual things that were happening.  Things that seem mostly […]

March 11, 2016 finding rest, Gal.4:16, list-making, Living by Faith, priorities, what really matters? 4 Comments

Anchoring Fickle to Faithful

I am fickle. The longer I live with myself the more I realize it. Adolescent mood swings gave way to mommy tantrums (I never thought I had anger issues and then came a husband and kids, even once a flying saucepan). Then once the kids were gone and you’d think peace might reign over the […]

February 26, 2016 empty nest, fighting for faith, Life Purpose, life stages, Living by Faith 9 Comments

STUCK! In a Snowy Pit

Benaiah went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion. As one of David’s mighty men he distinguished himself as a ‘doer of great deeds’ (II Sam.23:20). I am not so brave. I can’t fathom choosing to go down into a pit with a lion. I did however choose to go […]

February 17, 2016 Are you stuck?, Living by Faith, my story, overcoming fear 9 Comments

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