Faith and New Beginnings
New-beginning grace is empowering. It brings a desire to love others, to forgive, to serve, to extend mercy, and to share the life-saving gospel of Christ.
New-beginning grace is empowering. It brings a desire to love others, to forgive, to serve, to extend mercy, and to share the life-saving gospel of Christ.
Sometimes we hover on the fringes spiritually, when we don’t have that intimate one-on-one time with God, that time where we shut out everything else in our lives and He becomes the focus.
Patricia Raybon and her daughter Alana, coauthors of Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace, share how they came to reconcile their religious differences. Interviewed by Brooke Obie.
This truth is sweet comfort to my soul. God is always present, always powerful, reaching into my life with loving hands. He doesn’t break. His attention doesn’t fade or divert.
I am blessed beyond measure to have two daughters who teach me to be better simply by watching them “do life.”
God walks through the tough moments of our lives with us, providing exactly what we need, exactly when we need it.
She may not have been the best cook in the world, and she couldn’t sew a button on to save her life, but she shared many valuable lessons with me while she was here on Earth.
God was right, though. Motherhood is full of triumph and tragedy. But it’s the most rewarding job I could ever have hoped for.
I don’t know when I’d experienced such love. When I think back, I can still remember the quiet of darkness broken by our voices, the delicious goodness of having my mom all to myself.
We truly have just 18 summers before our children leave home—and each season is precious beyond words.
If there was grace and compassion to teach her six kids, this mom did it!
Let’s determine today that we’re going to be diligent about protecting the hearts and minds of our little ones…and ourselves. Let’s fill our lives with thoughts and things that will make us godly men and women who will make God proud.