Inspirational Stories

Ever think of yourself - as just a visitor, here on earth for an indefinite time....?

Born the youngest of 9 children to working class parents, the world lost the incredible piano player George Shearing on Feb. 14,2011.

The Bible often mentions "and his mother was..." indicating the value of a mother's influence

Influence is important but in the end godliness is a personal choice.

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

It is easy to focus on God's blessings instead of God himself.

The Old Testament history behind the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well.

Anyone reading my blogs probably has guessed- that I have a real passion for music. It has been said if music is food for the soul, play on....

I was remembering way back when i was just a little girl

You did't plant a tomato plant and expect fruit tomorrow did you? As I held my first child I knew their worthiness and loved them, yet they had done nothing. Doesn't that mean that we are already worthy and already loved and that there is nothing to prove?

We met Mabel when she was still a student, arriving from Kenya. Mabel studied at the University and rented a small room. Everything was not always the way she had hoped in Canada...nor was there calm and peace when she returned to Kenya, where many were getting killed...

Just like Elijah and Elisha, there is an unseen spiritual battle and God has provided protection for His people.

Just wanted to say a few words....

What if the first day of this week was your Genesis? Day one; In the beginning God.... Dare we begin another day without God? How deep the darkness, how void our lives would be, how aimless and without purpose our lives would be without his direction. Lord, create in me a new heart and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 52:10. On the first day as you take your first borrowed breath give thanks as the Holy Spirit begins to awaken you to a new dawn... and listen carefully for God to speak. And God said: Let there be light... Thank God for his light, thank God he separated us from the law of sin and death and from self destruction. Thank God for his gift, the gift of his own Son who gave his life a ransom for us all. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. James 1:17 Lord; thank you for your light for it leaves no shadows where sin can hide in me, no place to run to, no area of my life which he cannot enable me to be an over comer by his power.

All of the masks we wear in order to fit in or feel accepted eventually completely cover up who we are and pretty soon we don't feel comfortable anywhere we go. It is as though you have left parts of yourself behind and it is increasingly harder to be authentic.

salvation requires admitting our need and doing it God's way.

Two examples of faith in impossible situations.

Somewhere along the line someone told everyone they have to "quiet" the mind. This couldn't be more wrong.

Looking for information from breast cancer survivors.

Dad liked the old movies and the old actors who created characters that stay with us,throughout our lives....Humphrey Bogart, Lon Chaney, and so many who left an impression....