Comfort for Fall: God’s artwork (Psalm 8:3-5)

Scroll to the bottom for a link to listen to this post on our Some Comfort and Joy podcast! “I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a

Comfort for Fall: Autumn Praise (Psalm 19:1-4) NIV

Scroll to the bottom for a link to listen to this post on our Some Comfort and Joy podcast! The heavens declare the glory of God;     the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech;     night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words;

Comfort for Fall: God’s Inevitable Kingdom (Psalm 54:1&7)

Scroll to the bottom for a link to listen to this post on our Some Comfort and Joy podcast! “For your sake help me! Use your influence to clear me. Listen God – I’m desperate. Don’t be too busy to hear me. . . .Thank you God – you’re so good. You got me out

Fall Comfort: Cry for Help (Psalm 116: 1 & 12-13)

Scroll to the bottom for a link to listen to this post on our Some Comfort and Joy podcast! “I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.How can I repay the Lordfor all his goodness to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on

Comfort: Sisters in solidarity (John 11:21)

“‘Lord,’ Martha said to Jesus, ‘if you had been here, my brother would not have died.  But I know even now God will give you whatever you ask.’” John 11:21 NIV Mary and Martha were sisters who lived in the same house.  They worked side by side each day completing a myriad of tasks.  The

Comfort: How Can This Be? (Reflection on Luke 1)

“Mary said to the angel, “How can this be?” -Luke 1:34  After the shepherds arrive and share with the new parents the angelic message they received, Mary ponders. It’s striking to me that her response is not rejoicing but reflection. She is beginning to understand the complexity of how can this be.  When Joseph and

Comfort: Hagar, seen by God (Genesis 16:13)

“She answered God by name, praying to the God who spoke to her, ‘You’re the God who sees me!’” Genesis 16:13 The Message Each of us has beautiful qualities, just like all women throughout time. And we each have those ugly moments, character flaws, and circumstances beyond our control, that raise their heads. Not unlike

Lent Reflection: Prayer of Restoration (Philippians 2: 9-11)

“Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:

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Lent Reflection: My Confession (Philippians 2: 5-8)

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form,  he humbled himself

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Lenten Comfort: Covenant of the Heart (Jeremiah 31)

“…I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people…” -Jeremiah 31:33-34 Rejection from a parent; a shattering divorce; a splintered friendship. These broken relationships hurt differently than other sorts of losses. The pain and grief that comes