When the Future Becomes the Past
Every day, people busily scurry about from one priority to another, barely making time to sit down for a breather. Priorities related to our marriages, family, work, church, and life in general seem to overtake our limited 24-hour a day time frame. Those 24 hours are planned, experienced, and forgotten or regretted. Once passed they can never be relived. Daily, I think about all the priorities that I had the day before that were either pursued and accomplished or left on the
Yielding Control
I have always been someone who likes to be in control. I like to know what is around the bend and plan every detail to make it come out the way I perceive it should be. That is not God’s plan or way for us as His children. Over the years, I have been learning how to release control. God has allowed many events in my life to teach me how to let go and allow Him to control my life and bring about His plans. He has taught me that there is a big difference between self-control an
Broken and Free
Have you ever had something broken? Whether it is a broken relationship, bone, object or heart, once broken, it will never be the same. For broken relationships, sometimes the break is permanent. It hurts and all sorts of emotions linger. For broken bones, once they set and heal are often actually stronger than they were to begin with. For broken objects, trying to put the pieces back together exactly they way there were is impossible. For a broken heart, life seems like it h