A few years ago I wrote a devotional book called “Life-Changing Water: from Chaos to Glory” about how God uses water imagery in the Bible as a metaphor for stages in our lives. An absence of water is life-threatening. So is the absence of God in our lives, in the eternal sense. But God is a God of abundance. Witness the snowfall this weekend. While it is a temporary threat, it is nevertheless a bounty when the summer comes. We…..

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Well, the first month of 2022 has passed. We’ve seen threats of war, more fentanyl deaths than COVID ones, slain police officers, and last night, a freeze in Florida, of all places.

Here’s what God says, and if you’d like to know more about grace, peace, and mercy, go to church today. You’ll hear this message at www.covenantpalmbay.org either in person or online. “As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for…..

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It’s fun to celebrate accomplishments. People are made in the image of God, which means they are creative, productive, caring, and observant of everything which is going on around us.

Yesterday my husband and I took at walk in the Melbourne Mall. We weren’t exercising, though my arthritic hip joint felt every jarring step on those tiled floors. We weren’t shopping. We were going to see the artwork produced by Brevard County school children, and one in particular, our granddaughter…..

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Isn’t it great that even when we haven’t seen friends for a while, we are cheered by conversations we have with them, picking up “life” from wherever we last left it and not having concerns about anything but renewing our friendship?

That happened to us a few minutes ago.

We caught up on news, but beneath it all was an abiding mutual love which was refreshed by each other’s presence.

I’m reading lately about people who have strayed away from…..

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As most of you, my readers, know, I write books. Ten years ago, when I retired for the third time, I began by writing a book called “It’s a God Thing!” and now, a decade later, I am about to publish “Cher’s Sea Star Saga” a book about a family who fosters and then adopts children. If I had my life to live over again, I would be that Cher, and my home would be a refuge for children. There…..

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I was reading my passages for yesterday in the Book of Common Prayer, and this verse jumped, leaped, out at me. Hebrews 4:16 says: “ Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need ” I, of course, knew that we could approach Christ with our needs, for He is the High Priest and brings our prayers to the Father, but I’ve been concentrating…..

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This might be a good day to stay inside. It’s cold outside. For those of us privileged to be retired or working from home, we   need to thank God we can stay inside. Baby, it’s cold outside!

Let’s think about sending cards and letters to people we’re thinking about. Let’s read a book of scripture, maybe James, which tells us about brotherly love. How about reading a book or more than one chapter of a devotional.

My favorite today is…..

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II Corinthians 1:3-4 says: 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.  In our quest for peace and grace in 2022, we need to realize that there will not always be peace and grace, for sometimes we are in need of comfort during difficult circumstances……

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Psalm 34 says: “I will bless the Lord at all times/ His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

My soul makes its boast in the Lord;/ Let the humble hear and be glad.

Oh, magnify the Lord with me/ and let us exalt his name together!”

No matter what today’s circumstances: health, politics, finances, relationships , discouragement, or the other negatives this world can put before us, when we think eternally, they are mere seconds compared to the generations…..

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One of the ways I can celebrate peace and grace and keep it as a theme for the troubled times of 2022 is that saints before me have passed on this legacy of truth. Isaac Watts, the distinguished hymnwriter, based this famous hymn on the words of Psalm 90. I have the assurance that his words live on because God is sovereign, the designer of the universe, the purveyor of order, and the very essence of peace, grace, mercy, and…..

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