comfort

Dear Elisia Jane, Soon it will be a year since you left us. So soon, too soon, so sudden. We didn’t know–I didn’t know–that the hugs you gave on Easter would be the last I’d feel your touch. This Thursday would have been your fourteenth birthday. A reminder of the day you were born bringing […]

  Winter has never been my favorite season. The days are shorter. Darkness prevails. Storms bring their mix of snow and freezing rain. I’ve never been into the sports of the season as I fail to understand the attraction of sliding down a hill in freezing weather or slipping and falling on a frozen pond. […]

James 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Context: James 5:12 But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not […]

Isaiah 40:30-31 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Context: Isaiah 40:1 Comfort ye, […]