encouragement

Staying in the Game on a Cloudy Day

Reflections on a cloudy day in midsummer, and a free giveaway. Let’s be real. We are not at the top of our game every day. No one is. Some days we may not even be IN the game, to be honest. On those challenging days I feel like my personal black raincloud is hovering overhead, […]

Psalm 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.   Context: Psalm 42:1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O […]

Psalm 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.   Context: Psalm 42:1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O […]

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, […]