Suffering. What a heavy word. No doubt, this word brings various scenarios and feelings to your mind. What exactly is suffering? If you are like me, you tend to think of “serious” stuff. An individual undergoing cancer. Someone being persecuted for their faith. Or, as...

As I awoke to the rainy remnants of Hurricane Irma in northwest North Carolina this morning, I had a mixture of thoughts. One was an overwhelming understanding of God’s grace and a deep gratitude for life  and its simple pleasures. As we have all seen pictures of the...

What Do You Desire?   Perhaps this very question brings forth anxiety as we know that “hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.” (Proverbs 13:12) what we desire and what we look forward to tells us a lot about the state of our...