Consider the Lilies

Category: Hope

  • The Unfinished

    In the U.S., the annual Christmas season has an undetermined beginning (is it July? October? November?) and it also has a hard stop. The end date could be December 25, or another day, but that day is the end. I’m sure I’m not alone with a list of extra things to finish – shopping, wrapping,…

  • Chicken Soup Story

    It’s easier to hear God’s voice and know you’re in His plan when “the planets align.”  That is, when parallel, unrelated events occur simultaneously and fit together so perfectly that it had to have been orchestrated, it couldn’t just happen. I had something like that happen today.  It all started with an organic chicken sale…

  • Christmas Expectations

    The way we celebrate the holidays. Just that thought, alone, probably jogged your brain into countless memories of Christmas past.  Everybody has them.  Ready or not, the Christmas mode rolls around the day after thanksgiving.  It feels a little forced.  Dust off the ornaments in the basement.  Pull out the lights.  Balsam. Berries.  Red and…