What Girls Get Wrong

"You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You." ~ Isaiah 26:3, NKJV This verse has been running through my head a lot the past couple of weeks. When my heart has been anything but peaceful as I watch the health of two of my three cats slowly fail. Letting go of them, who I love so much, have had for so long, it hurts. And besides that, there have been other things going on in my life which tear at my heart and fill my mind with doubt and fear. Chances are, fear and doubt are plaguing you too. Maybe you're watching a parent or a grandparent's health fail. Maybe your parents are going through a divorce. Maybe you're going through a divorce. Maybe you're struggling with school or work or illness. Maybe what's bothering you is something else. I think about when Isaiah penned this verse, under the inspiration of God. He started his ministry in the same year King Uzziah died (Isaiah 6:1). He lived throug...

" The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?" ~ Psalm 27:1 NKJV  It's easy to fear. Satan likes to tell us that God doesn't care, or that He doesn't know what He is doing, or that He's not able to help us. But, if God is our salvation, if He is our strength, who do we have to fear?  We know God is all-powerful , all-knowing , everywhere at once , loving , gracious , merciful , righteous , just , willing and desiring to cleanse us and heal us and make us more like Christ... Do you know anyone or anything that can compete with that? I don't. So if nothing and no one can hold a candle to our loving Father and Holy Savior, who is there for us to fear? Nothing. No one.

If you haven't seen it, I definitely recommend watching The Bucket List . You can read a summary of it here (warning, lots of spoilers). It's about two men who are diagnosed with cancer. Not knowing how long they have left, they go on a quest to complete a list of things they've always wanted to do, but never got around to (a bucket list). I confess, I haven't thought out my own bucket list yet. Pretty much my list as of right now has two items: become a best-selling author and travel the world (hey you’ve got to dream big). But the movie did get me thinking: what would I want to make sure I got to do before I die? What would I do if I found out I only had months to live? The problem, though, is that none of us are guaranteed even the next five minutes. We could be walking from our living room to our kitchen and have our house collapse on us (very unlikely unless you live in a condemned house, but it still could happen). In James 4:13-15 , we read that life is l...