Posts

Counting your blessings

Image
  How many of you are anxiously anticipating thanksgiving? In a mere 36 days, family will be gathered around old and new traditional meals. Little people will be learning family traditions, and everyone will be making core memories.     However, in the middle of all this joy, someone will be battling a broken heart. There will be an empty seat at the table, magnifying the hole in our heart. We have to take this time to honor that persons memory. A grandmother, a grandfather, a parent, a sibling, a child…that hurt makes us feel as if we cannot bear to engage in the laughter and traditions that someone else started.     Psalm 100:4 tells us “Enter His gates with thanksgiving ; go into His courts with praise, Give thanks to Him and praise His name.”    The Lord is in that moment holding your hand, and healing your heart. He wants you to remember, and in doing so you can draw closer to Him by praise and thanksgiving. Take some time to speak about the angel of your family, honoring their m
Post a Comment
Read more

Never again

Image
   In light of the events transpiring in the Middle East, I’ve been amazed at the amount of people across social media that claim they had no knowledge of a raging war in Israel. So I’m here, writing my first blog, taking a stand for Israel.  It’s 1941 and the world looked on and ignored the plight of 6million Jews who were  being persecuted and murdered in their homes and sent to concentration camps like Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and twenty others. The world looked on in silent horror or disregard as Jewish families were tortured, abused, and killed. This mass destruction targeted children, babies, mothers, grandparents, and the world stood by as humanity was erased. Survivors and sympathizers were strengthened by their faith and swore “never again”. It’s 2023, 82 years since those horrific events, and yet another antisemitic genocide is happening, and being widely broadcasted and I’ve heard many people say “I didn’t know there was a war”. Your coordinations right now may mean
Post a Comment
Read more