Shine Your Light

My Garden, OR Galatians 5:22-23 NLT But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! My grandma was a stickler for finding every last ripe berry. As a kid, picking berries was pure never-ending misery….

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…

Willamette National Forest, OR Revelation 3:15-16 CSB I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth. I often hear people say, “Wait five minutes….the weather…

Zephaniah 3:17 GNTThe Lord your God is with you;his power gives you victory.The Lord will take delight in you,and in his love he will give you new life.He will sing and be joyful over you. There is power in a shower. The cleansing, flowing water cascading over you rinses dirt, grime, and often emotional angst…

Hebrews 10:25 Let us not give up the habit of meeting together In 1857, a young music teacher named William Pitts was traveling by stagecoach to visit his future bride. The stage stopped at a village called Bradford (near today’s Nashua, Iowa.) He was inspired by the beauty of the little vale and imagined a…