How to Be Thankful While You Wait

How to Be Thankful While You Wait

I am waiting for God to make a big reveal this week.

The results of a writing contest I entered in early January should be announced in the next 24 hours.

A range of feelings has gripped me in the past eight weeks.  First, excitement.  Then impatience.  Then elation, anxiety, and doubt.  Close to the end, a strange mixture of hope, fear, and readiness for it all to be over.  I’ve been waiting with a bundle of emotions for the past 52 days.

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When Storms Rattle Your Faith

When Storms Rattle Your Faith
When Storms Rattle Your Faith
When Storms Rattle Your Faith

A huge storm system hit my area last night, claiming the life of one person.

I was up late, watching the results of a contest I entered.

As I watched the Facebook photos roll in of scary-big hail and overturned vehicles, I turned to Psalm 18, the psalm which carried me through so many hard times in the past.

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