Tag: trust
Posted on January 8, 2019
by Paris Renae
12 Comments
We’re only one week into a new year and already anxiousness and fretting have penetrated most days. Oh, I’m good at disguising them in prayers. Asking the only One who can accomplish my God sized longings. Truth is though, the many words and the…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Category: featuredTags: anxious, dead, doubt, earth, freedom, fresh, fret, God, Jesus, joy, longing, love, mercy, new, New Year, past, peace, praise, prayer, restoring, satisfy, sin, soul, trust, truth, wait, weary, weight, world
Posted on September 18, 2018
by Paris Renae
6 Comments
All guilty of saying: ‘that’s not fair’, raise your hand. Seems like we start with that in our preschool years and keep on indefinitely. And often things aren’t fair. But how do we measure misdeeds to determine what is fair? Laws, politics, rules, ethics,…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Category: featuredTags: abuse, eternity, ethics, failure, faith, gift, God, grace, guilty, insult, Jesus, judge, laws, lie, morality, need, politics, providence, repay, rules, saved, suffer, that's not fair, threat, tradition, triumph, trust, weakness, wisdom
Posted on August 28, 2018
by Paris Renae
8 Comments
Lots of things are contagious – mostly stuff we don’t want to catch. Like the flu or the common cold. My husband used to have a poster in his office that said ‘Attitudes are Contagious – Is Yours Worth Catching?’ I think the same…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Category: featuredTags: abundance, answer, attitude, Bible, challenge, Christ, contagious, dying, emptiness, empty, eternity, God, hope, husband, Jesus, love, money, peace, poster, proud, respect, rest, rich, shelter, trust, world, woul
Posted on August 21, 2018
by Paris Renae
1 Comment
Know that saying ‘all good things must come to an end’? Like a really good book, wonderful day, reliable product, good paying job, cherished life. There will be many happy endings in this life, and many soul draining ones as well. I miss my…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Category: featuredTags: America, baby, children, Christ, death, disease, dread, end, epidemic, eternity, fear, forever, God, good news, grandchildren, happy, Holy Spirit, hope, hurt, Jesus, job, joy, life, longing, messes, mother, pain, peace, power, promise, reliable, rest, Savior, saying, security, separation, sin, sorrow, soul, suicide, time, trust, wonderful
Posted on August 7, 2018
by Paris Renae
5 Comments
Any given day the headlines are scary reading – suicide, shooting, missing. And hope seems lost. And yet…the widow clings, the terrified students grasp, the mother and father print posters. It’s a soul thing – we know hope is real. We know, but how?…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Category: featuredTags: Bible, crime, death, eternal, execution, faithful, God, guilty, headlines, Holy Spirit, hope, Jesus, life, lost, missing, money, prayer, promise, remind, scary, shooting, soul, strong, student, suicide, trust, weary, widow, world, worry
Posted on July 31, 2018
by Paris Renae
4 Comments
Why hope? Hope is so hard to define, yet it’s what we cling to. So maybe it’s time to not only say it but believe, know it, count on it. Today is my birthday – I hope I don’t look my age, I hope…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Category: featuredTags: adventure, age, believe, birthday, certain, Christ, church, control, count on, define, desire, dictionary, doubt, effect, eternal, everlasting, expectation, fail, faith, feeling, generation, glory, God, health, hope, imagine, Jesus, journey, lie, milestone, obsess, power, prayer, promise, trust, wise
Posted on July 10, 2018
by Paris Renae
7 Comments
If we have one cool thing in our house, it’s our shower. What we hadn’t noticed was the water pressure slowly getting lower. Until a sort of whining sound started. How had we not noticed how slow the water had become? It was gradual.That’s…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Category: featuredTags: affliction, believe, comfort, despair, faith, faithful, foreign, gift, gradual, heart, hope, house, Jesus, joyful, lesson, patient, peace, power, prayer, pressure, Spirit, trust, water, whine
Posted on June 12, 2018
by Paris Renae
3 Comments
Ever help a turtle find his way back to water? A little soft shell guy found himself in the middle of my hot concrete driveway. He wasn’t moving. Ever since a turtle got hold of my son’s finger one summer long ago, I’ve been…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Category: featuredTags: acknowledge, afraid, answer, body, children, faithful, God, honor, hot, Jesus, love, mess, plan, promise, protect, relocate, rescued, salvation, satisfy, soul, thirst, trouble, trust, turtle, universe
Posted on May 29, 2018
by Paris Renae
8 Comments
A charge to my card that I don’t recognize, a call to report it to the fraud department – not so unusual these days. A world turned upside down wanting only self-indulgence, gain at any cost, and no regard for others – what was…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Category: featuredTags: alert, believe, children, Christ, confidence, crime, cure, deposit, divorce, eternity, forever, fraud, guarantee, heart, Holy Spirit, identity, information, inheritance, life, marry, Messiah, miracle, parents, password, peace, protection, purchase, rights, safe, salvation, scam, security, selfish, shocking, sin, steal, sure thing, theft, trust, vow, world
Posted on April 17, 2018
by Paris Renae
9 Comments
When I write something and then close it out, a dialog box pops up ‘Save or Don’t Save’. Two little boxes, one big question. Kind of like when we clean out the garage or attic – save, don’t save? Stuff that at one time…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Category: featuredTags: attic, blood, clean, condemn, creator, cross, dialog, doubt, earth, eternity, faith, forever, frustration, garage, God, heaven, intercede, Jesus, love, meaning, people, question, save, sin, stuff, trust, usefulness, worth
Posted on April 3, 2018
by Paris Renae
8 Comments
Funny how we mark things with time – the year of the hurricanes, September 11, 2001, the call this morning from a tearful child “I’m on my way to the emergency room”. The slow motion moments. Moving at the speed of light to get…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Category: featuredTags: 9/11, ability, Bible, bleeding, blessing, chaos, death, doubt, emergency, faithful, God, help, homeless, hospital, hurricane, Jesus, life, news, peace, plea, praise, provision, sickness, soul, standstill, sufficiency, tears, trouble, trust, worries, worry
Posted on January 23, 2018
by Paris Renae
3 Comments
Scary is different for us all. But we pretty much react the same way. As children: pulling covers up over our heads. As adults: turning away or closing our eyes. One evening a ragamuffin bunch set sail and encountered winds that kept them from…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Category: featuredTags: afraid, courage, doubt, faith, fear, God, hope, human, hurt, Jesus, longing, lost, panic, progress, save, scary, set sail, sick, tired, trust, voice, waves, winds, worry
