Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Peace in Circumstances”
What consumes your thoughts and heart? A world polarized around conflict? Social media posts? Civil rights? Pandemic news? Or perhaps it is more personal: a loss, a diagnosis, a prodigal, unemployment, or a relationship you can’t make work. Just like us, 1st century Christians lived in a world taut with fear, hate, and uncertainty. Many had to fight for their …
Ever since the stay-at-home orders were issued in March, my husband has been trying to keep our family afloat in the floodwaters of no work and stalled federal aid. And like so many others, as we roll into week seven we are trying to adjust to the COVID financial crisis. “I’m sorry Karen,” my husband Mike said, “but I had to …
Is your faith strong enough to meet your biggest fear? We’ve all had bad dreams that were so real we had a hard time shaking them off. Mine is a recurring dream where I am being stalked by a bear. I have a bear phobia — a real one — I can’t even look at them in the zoo.** And …
A New Season The leaves on the Japanese Maple outside my office twitched under the falling raindrops. I pulled on a sweatshirt and peered through the mini-blinds. It sure doesn’t look like May, I thought. A thick grey veil lay across the sky threatening a full day of rain. I didn’t mind. No rush for summer to arrive. Summer meant change. …
Every Christian will face suffering. Is your faith prepared to meet it?
A re-post in the wake of my husband’s recent job loss and all the uncertainty that accompanies it. Questions about faith and God filled my mind as I tossed back and forth in bed– –then Fear came calling. Now, I know better than to allow Fear to get his foot in the door, but it was midnight and the week had been filled …
