Simple Truths Blog
Sometimes, I regress. There are days that I find myself crawling back to my little comfort zone. The one that wants to just hide out from the rest of the world. The one that held me captive for many years. The place where I am safe from rejection. Safe from criticism. Safe from …
Continue reading "HE Is Holding My Hand"
I love music. Always have. From my days as a little kid playing the piano..to my days of my youth when I sang and played the flute. I just love music. It is an escape of sorts. A refuge. A healing balm even. I am so thankful that God chooses to speak to us through …
Continue reading "Who Do You Run To?"
Psalm 139:1-4 (ESV) 1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on …
Continue reading "Even When I Don’t Feel Like It"
I woke up really early this morning. If you know me very well, then you know that 4:45 a.m. is very very early for me. My dog woke me up first...she's a 6 year old toy poodle that occasionally likes to wake me up so that she can go out and graze like a horse. …
Continue reading "When Troubles Come"
I am studying Genesis - Deuteronomy right now with a group of ladies. We just finished Exodus and are now moving on to Leviticus. As we were watching the video that goes with the study, I was struck with a frightening thought. One of those thoughts that really puts things into perspective. …
Continue reading "Law Turned Into Sacrificial Love"
It has been three weeks since my last post!! That's not to say that I haven't had anything to share. No, quite the opposite actually. The funny thing is that I actually began writing one to share earlier this week...but it isn't what was put on my heart to share today. Do you like to …
Continue reading "LET ME HELP YOU WITH THAT GOD"
Peace in the midst of a storm. Sounds impossible. A storm is anything but peaceful. Storms rage. Yet, PEACE, gives feelings of calm. So, how in the world can you really be at peace in the midst of a storm? Maybe you are in a storm right now and you don't feel the …
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I wonder if any of you have ever felt like you were just beating your head against a brick wall? Or maybe have you ever just wondered why...why..why? Maybe even wondered if you were the "person" for the task at hand? Like, "God, I don't want to do this and I am tired of …
Continue reading "When You Are Weary, Don’t Look Past HIM"
2 Timothy 1:7 (ESV) ~ for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. As I was driving home this morning, I was talking to God and thinking. I was thinking on the topics of fear and anxiety and trust. On a daily basis I remind myself and …
Continue reading "Cloudy With A Chance Of Fear or Sunny With No Clouds In Sight?"
The picture above is of part of my flowerbed...and as you can see, the weeds are taking over. I was going to pull the weeds. Why pull them when I can spray some weed-killer on them and be done with it?? Then, it hit me... So many times we try to do everything ourselves (at …
Continue reading "Why Pull Weeds When I Can Use Weed Killer?"
Hope For The Broken 