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        Your smile could brighten any room It beams across your face And anybody meeting you Would think you've found your place Among the few who have it all Refusing to give way To all the doom and gloom about In Jesus, you must lay.   But once you're out of public gaze Your perma grin goes out Fear and bitterness...

Wide-eyed and kinky-headed, they’re up at 7:50 a.m. anticipating the blessed occasion. Two weeks of arduous labor have led to this moment, and with giggles of expectation they quickly dress, make beds, and brush teeth. Today is the day—allowance day. Having carefully decided what to buy a month in advance, the girls are hyper and relentless in their...

Depression wants you to feel powerless, hopeless, helpless, adrift. It wants you to sense that you are out of control, that the problems in your life are insurmountable, that you are left to ride out the tumultuous storms alone. “You can’t do it,” it says, “No one understands, no one cares, no one else has these problems. There’s nothing you...

                                   Now is the time to face the fact                 What I am has had it's day                 And as I speak about my past                 The strength I own all drains away                 For I am built of imperfection            ...

                               We all need a Lord to follow             Helps us with our sense of worth             Keeps us from the realms of darkness             New creation, brand new birth             If we keep our eyes upon us             We will draw into...

Sometimes I wonder. Sometimes I wander. Sometimes I screw up. Sometimes I wish I could do it all over. Sometimes you couldn’t pay me enough. Sometimes I make plans. Sometimes they don’t work out. Sometimes I’m full of confidence. Sometimes I’m full of doubt. But God is in the sometimes. He knows just what I need. God allows the sometimes To prove...

I still do it. I don’t want to, but I do—not all the time, but often enough for me to realize it’s still an issue. Everything’s a blur. I don’t think or chew or breathe. I just swallow and hope it falls on my hurt, absorbing the anger and sadness and pain. Sometimes I don’t even realize what I’ve done until a whole sleeve is gone, crammed...

       It is easy to be faithful when times are good.  It is easy to have faith when you are not facing any adversity.  Heb 11:1 (NIV) says, “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”  Faith is put to the test when times are difficult.  We begin to doubt God when things around us start to get a little...

I hate algebra. It puts what is measurable into immeasurable terms; it allows that which is defined and structured to be represented theoretically, hypothetically, conceptually. It tolerates what is unconventional and seemingly contradictory. It takes everything you know to be true and turns it ten different ways from Sunday, making you question it all,...

  Dave Ramsey has often said that “People who live deeply rich lives do so with great intentionality 100% of the time.”  He has also often said that “Those who become wealthy in life do so with great intentionality 100% of the time.”  When Dave is talking about this kind of stuff he usually says, “Happen to your life.  Don’t let your life...