True love cannot exist without the power of choice. No matter what we do, we can’t make someone love us. People search for love in many ways. Some rely on desperate tactics like manipulation, control, deception. True love is not petty or manipulative. It is 100% […]
Tag: God
The Sound of Grace
“The Holy Sound” Stanza 4 One of the most desperate needs in my or anyone’s life is grace. We cannot earn grace; earning it defies its very definition. Although He was a mighty God, Jesus came to us as a seed of man, swaddled within the […]
The Sound of a Plan
The Holy Sound – Stanza #3 You would think that God’s mighty King of Kings would be born in a palace. However, God’s plans are different than ours. He was born in a lowly stable before a humble audience of farm animals. No doctor, midwife, or […]
The Sound of Freedom
The Holy Sound, Stanza #2 Heaven’s Mighty deliverer and King entered the earth as a helpless infant, reliant on humans to care for him. Mary was just a teenager, and Joseph wasn’t much older than her. The tiny hands of an infant held the seeds that […]
Before the Birth
Store shelves are heaving with Christmas goodies waiting for us to take home, toy catalogs already pile on our counters, and the radio stations started featuring carols. We’ve begun to usher in Christmas, and we haven’t even celebrated Thanksgiving. Even if we are “pregnant” with hope […]