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This World is Not Our Home Goods: 5 Essential Verses to Help Navigate an Unsettled World

April 9, 2022 by Loree

We gulp eager the fresh air of freedom as shackles of winter melt away like a snowball in the desert. Inhaling the deep pink of spring, we feel the ground settle under our feet. Then boom! Like a [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, God in control, Peace, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, Cain, Daniel 2:21, dissatisfaction, envy, God is in control, God rules over the nations, James 1:17, James 3:14-16, James Bond vs Russia, John 14:27, John 16:33, Mark 15:10, Psalm 125:2, Psalm 22:8, Russia conflict, Russia doping scandal, Russia vs the USA, selfish ambition, threat of war, Ukraine, War

Why Our New Year’s Resolutions May Look Different This Year-Psalm 75:3

January 1, 2021 by Loree

Yard games cease as five-year-old Jett looks up and asks, “Who’s coming to my house?” We wonder the same…Lumbering up our long drive is a truck. A U-Haul truck. What in the world? But as the guy jumps [Read more...]

Posted in: Family & Friendship, God in control, Life & Work, Peace, Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, bingewatching, COVID woes, global worries, masks, New Years, pandemic, Psalm 75:3, record hurricanes, resolutions, Winston Churchill quote

What Now? How To Cope When Your Best Laid Plans Go Awry—Psalm 139

May 16, 2020 by Loree

I messed up big time. Those words zinged like a wind-up car ricocheting through my brain. What was I thinking?  The news reports showed multitudes of airports with deserted corridors and [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, God in control, Life & Work, Peace, Praise and Thanks, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly, Travel Tagged: Airline flight, anxiety, COVID, divine timing, frustration, Psalm 139, scheme, social distance, worry

Five Ways to Make Easter Special in a Strange Time: Psalm 22

April 10, 2020 by Loree

This Sunday smacks me the hardest yet—I’m sad about our Easter traditions. It’s the first time I can’t worship in-person with my church family. And I’m oh so lonely for them. The smiles, the hugs, [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, grace, Israel Trip, Life & Work, Peace, Poetry, Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, Easter, grace, hope, Jerusalem, mercy, Psalm 22

How Hilarious 2020 Predictions From the Past Help Us Be Content in the Present

January 26, 2020 by Loree

What a futuristic-sounding number—2020. It feels like something phenomenal should transpire this year. Like some great discovery should be unveiled such as the ten commandments on the actual stone [Read more...]

Posted in: Life & Work, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, be present, content, joy, Matthew 6:24, predictions, protection, Psalm 5:11, refuge, resolutions, worry

“Where are you God?”–Finding the Beauty of Nature in Rwanda (#2)

September 18, 2018 by Loree

“Where are you God?” Frustrated, fearful and despairing—bitter words we all know familiar—gush forth as they sneak into our souls. Our head tells us he is there. But in our core, we don’t feel his [Read more...]

Posted in: africa, Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly, Travel Tagged: Anne Frank, anxiety, be present, beauty, calm, comfort, despair, faithful, fear, frustrated, garden, gifts, hard, healing, heaven, optimism, Psalm 23, Rwanda, savor, scars, slow, soak, sunrise, sunset, thankful, wisdom

How to Be All In When Asked to do Hard Things

July 7, 2018 by Loree

You want me to do what? Move back to Texas??  I argued with God. I whined. I balked. I asked for three fleece. I felt a bit like Gideon, but my request was for one more than Gideon even asked [Read more...]

Posted in: Family & Friendship, Life & Work, Peace, Praise and Thanks, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, Avengers, blessings, comfort, comfort zone, Deborah, dread, family, friendship, Gideon, Hulk, joys, Judges, Judges 6:17-20, Judges 6:36-38, Judges 6:39-40, Judges 7:15, Moving, peace, plans, Samson, Texas, trust, Wonder Woman, work

How to Walk Bold When Your Path is Hard and the World is Falling Apart Around You

May 23, 2018 by Loree

And now the funerals begin. I can’t believe ten kids are dead.  Again. Mowed down by a troubled peer.  Again. And to think I was all set to blog about the royal wedding… maybe later for [Read more...]

Posted in: Peace, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, comfort, death, fear, grace, grief, hope, Isaiah 51:12-16, Isaiah 57 18-24, pain, school shooting, worry

Three Quick Ways to Find Peace When Chaos Rules the Day

April 21, 2018 by Loree

He looked rumpled like an unmade bed, as if he had fought hard for his peace. But with his charming demeanor, this whimsical bear seemed to be begging me to grasp the secret he knew deep. Carved with [Read more...]

Posted in: Life & Work, Peace, Praise and Thanks, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: annoyance, anxiety, beauty, breathe, carpool, Colossians 3:15, distraction, John 14:27, nature, obsession, peace, Pray, Psalm 23, sunrise, sunset, worry

How The Tomb Allows us to Live Fearless and Free

March 31, 2018 by Loree

Would you want to know when you were going to die? The date. The time. The place. The how? I fear with a deadline of my mortality looming I would begin a panicked list, beanstalk high, of what I [Read more...]

Posted in: Forgiveness, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, Beloved, blood, choice, death, death row, Easter, evil, fearless, forgiven, free, Jews, Sin, third day, tomb
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