Salvation

Happy New Year Blessings to You!! Heceta Head Lighthouse, Florence, OR Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Someone recently asked me, “What was your best year?” So, what makes a best year? The year I was born? The year my children were born? The year I landed my dream…

Camp Polk Cemetery, Sisters, OR Matthew 16:24 GNT Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you want to come with me, you must forget yourself, carry your cross, and follow me.” It’s an exciting time for my oldest grandson as he prepares for his first day of preschool. His dutiful parents are collecting…

1 Thessalonians 5:11 NIV Therefore encourage one another and build each other up. Many years ago, when my son was in middle school, he had a rock painting art project. While it probably wasn’t exactly what the art teacher envisioned, I love it! He wrote, “Build Up! Don’t tear down.”  There is so much wisdom packed…

1 John 4:4 CSB You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. John 1:14, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” Ponder that Jesus experienced everything we do while He was walking on…

Hawkeye Buffalo Ranch, Fredericksburg, IA Philippians 2:3-4, “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.” Sing a Song of SixpenceA Pocket Full of RyeFour and Twenty BlackbirdsBaked in a…

Columbia River from Above Ecclesiastes 3:11 GNT He has set the right time for everything. He has given us a desire to know the future, but never gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding what he does. My husband and I often try to compare notes about when and where we were before we knew…