I want to focus on the word “war.” It connotes engaging in a battle with an enemy. That sounds mild compared to news footage or movies about the attack on Benghazi. Get those pictures in your mind because our battle is no different except it is fought with spiritual weapons rather than artillery.
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Hope or Despair?
The following words passed from friend to friend over the years. Stephanie, friend of our daughter, Rene’, shared these words with her during her recovery after surgery for stage III ovarian cancer in 2014, and they are still relevant today. Originally Joan Chittister penned these words on hope or despair in “The Psalms: Meditations for every Day of the Year.” Cut from the Same Cloth ~ “Hope and despair are not opposites. They are cut from the very same cloth; made from the very same material; shaped from the very same circumstances. Most of all, every life finds itself forced Read More
Dark Moments
Naomi and her husband, Elimelech, had two grown sons, Mahlon and Chilion, and lived in Bethlehem many centuries ago. Because of a severe famine in Judah, this family migrated to Moab on the east side of the Dead Sea. While there, Elimelech died and Mahlobn and Chilion married two Moabite women – Ruth and Orpah respectively. After ten years, Naomi’s two sons died. Naomi heard the famine had ended, and decided to return to her people, the Jews in Bethlehem. Her two daughters-in-law pleaded to go with, but Naomi urged them to turn back saying, “It grieves me very much Read More