Overcoming One Day At A Time

You thought you had hope, until tragedy took over. You thought life was in control, until it erupted into chaos. You assumed you were strong, until you were suddenly brought to your knees. You thought you walked by faith, until you found yourself consumed in the darkness of despair. Hope is gone. You’re facing circumstances in life that seem insurmountable, even for God. We quickly realize that our problem isn’t that we haven’t trusted God, but that we trusted God and believed He’d come through . . . and He didn’t. He could have prevented our pain and suffering, but He chose not to. We cry out, but there is no answer and our faith takes a tragic turn. But God’s silence is not His solution and His absence is not His answer. His goals are eternal, not earthly. You want a way out . . . He’s making a way through. You crave comfort . . . and He brings you to the Cross. It is there that we realize: we can’t deliver ourselves from a crisis that God himself has orchestrated. God is taki...

It's true that words can hurt and pierce the very being of our souls but it's also true that sometimes its the words we don't say that impact a person more than we can ever know. Currently I am sitting in my infusion chair hooked up to my port and BP cuff covered in thin white hospital blankets still shivering while the medicine courses through my veins. I hear the beep...beep...beep...of the machines around me and those connected to others. I've learned how to secretly turn down the volume of the deafening beeps so that my brain stops vibrating to avoid the nails on a chalkboard sound. As I pause and just listen to the sounds around me I can feel the hustle and bustle of people's life. Every one of us go through moments in life when we wonder why something has happened or is happening to us. I am reminded that every day is a gift from God, one of the reasons it's called the present. Each moment we are in we have to intentionally be engaged in the present momen...

I've blogged for years but I decided to start a new blog in 2015 because God has shown me again some new perspective and reignited a fire in me that had burned out long ago. I have been reminded a lot this year that He isn't done with me yet. I've spent many many days and nights on my death bed, lying in a lonely hospital bed. I've heard more than my share of bad news especially this year. I've had people that were close friends stop talking to us because it was too much for them to bear. I've been hurt, left, betrayed, cheated, abused, abandoned at some of the hardest, worst times in my life but its all left me to cling to God that much more. At the end of the day God's strength will get us through any and all situations if we trust in His words even when we don't always feel like it, all we need is faith as small as a mustard seed. I hope through my journey and the mountains that I am and have had to climb you will find encouragement for your life and...