After COVID, retreat from society, changing buying habits, deaths of loved ones, yearning for past times of calm, and now seeing senseless war and the inflation and worry attached to suffering, one cold become depressed. It’s only natural. People feel pain, physical or emotional, and our defense mechanism is to withdraw to a dark place unless we make a decision to stay away from that dark place.

How do we escape its tentacles?

I propose these truths. One, we are…..

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Our souls long for restoration when we grieve, either for our sins (when we pray for redemption), for succor and strength in times of disaster such as the Ukraine invasion, (when we pray for strength and understanding in the loss of a homeland), or for comfort when a loved one dies (when our knees are weak and our tears flow).

It helps me to understand that God is sovereign, that He sees the entire panoply of history, that the death…..

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This is the next Lenten Psalm from my book: “Restore My Soul: A Lenten Journal”:

MY PSALM 302   DISCOURAGEMENT

Almighty Father, You who created me, You know me all too well. When I am discouraged, Bound by emotions which drain my energy And sap my strength, I pray deliverance.

When life’s struggles become burdensome, When I see the dark skies and feel overwhelmed, When death and disasters are clouds on my mind And the pain of sin overtakes my…..

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When I was writing this book, the Parkland School shooting had just occurred. This is My Psalm 301:

MY PSALM 301   TRAGEDY

Note: The tragic Parkland, FL school shooting, claiming seventeen lives, occurred the first day of Lent, 2018.

Heavenly Father, Creator of all things,

Abba, Father,

Praised be Your Name in the heavens and on earth,

For You have heard my cry; I can feel Your Presence Because Jesus brings me to Your loving arms When I cry…..

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Lent has traditionally been a time of reflection, a time leading up to Easter when we celebrate Jesus’ conquering of death and salvation from our sins if we repent of them and follow His teachings. I will take the reader through my book of restoration psalms to remind us of our daily walk to victory. My Psalm 300 is named: “Keep Me Close.” May it bless your day.

MY PSALM 300:   KEEP ME CLOSE

Dear Heavenly Father, I come into…..

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Today we watch yet another war in our livingrooms…not on the history channel with graining black and white film, but in reality–living color. Read this article, yes, it will make you cry. Then think about the raviging of this site yesterday by the Russian army. What story are we sending to those who refuse to remember history?

Here I present the story of Babi Yar, the poet who first told me the story. Today, as Kiev stands at the epicenter…..

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As war rages in Ukraine, and our brothers and sisters resist the attacks, and as political attacks, concerns, financial predictions, and inflation attack our minds and souls, we need a good dose of peace from our creator who tells us to focus, not on this world, but on His eternal principles and promises.

Philippians 4:6-7 needs proclamation: “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about eerything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done. Then you…..

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