Fifteen years ago, I started this blog on a whim. I wasn’t really sure what I’d do with it, and I certainly didn’t think I’d be here, fifteen years later, still writing about hope! I took the name “Hope Is Calling” from the verse that is still, 15 years later, my favorite. [I pray that] …
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We live in a click-bait world that feeds on fear and anxiety. Advertisers and media earn billions off of our clicks, and they have become experts at offering us more and more of the things we’re more likely to click on and read. The problem is that, for some reason, we humans are a lot …
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As 2019 and the Christmas season draws to a close, I find myself thinking about how many truths and principles exist as a paradox. The first shall be last. The greatest is the servant. Love your enemy and do good to those who spite you. To me, the biggest paradox is that God chose to …
The paradox of an infant Savior and what it represents today Read More »
I am going to repost what I shared last Christmas, for the world still seems to be falling apart. Most likely it always will. This year, I think that different people would give completely different lists of what that looks like… which parts of things are falling apart and which are falling together. But then …
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December 2016. The once-great city of Aleppo, jewel of the Ottoman Empire and home to 2 million not all that long ago (think Houston, TX for size), is in its death throws as massive evacuations continue. In South America, Venezuela is in total upheaval after the most-used currency bill has suddenly been declared no longer valid, …
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As I look out my window, I see dying trees — trees that were healthy last year. I see stumps of trees that died last year and were healthy when we bought this house 8 years ago. I read on the Internet how many huge percentages of trees in North America are dying at abnormally …
The world is dying and are we sharing what it needs? Read More »
I’ve been silent here for the last several months because I haven’t been sure that I have anything worth saying. Life’s been difficult, and it’s also been boring and normal. There have been wonderful triumphs and victories as well as great difficulties, questions, controversies, struggles, and pain. This is what life is made of. As …
Hope in the darkness, when you’re facing things you never thought you’d have to Read More »
Yesterday I heard the tail end of a new-to-me song on the radio, and I thought, “Wow! I think I like this song!” It ended, I had to get ready for my day, and it slipped my mind. // This morning, as I was lying in bed, one song on klove ended and another began. …
Last Thursday ended with my husband in ICU. All of a sudden. At 7:30 pm he was fine, and by 9:00 he was in the ER with machines carefully measuring his malfunctioning heart, working to bring it back into order to avoid a stroke. By Friday afternoon, he was released… his heart once again beating …
It seems like everyone this morning is mourning Robin Williams this morning and talking about depression. On klove this morning, Craig shared how he suffered from deep depression for 10 years, and how real and dark and oppressing it is. He mentioned different things that well-meaning people say, how his mind would agree with them, …