There is a television commercial that plays occasionally advertising a delicious candy.  It has a little girl looking in the window of a candy shop filled with enticing delicacies.  The look on the little girl’s face is one of awe and anticipation as she considers her choice.  You may have seen that same look on […]

I am by no means a lady in waiting with perfect patience and the Lord knows that full well. I’m the kinda gal that will eat her bread half toasted just because she’s too impatient to wait for the 2 minutes to be complete; same goes for my cookies. When something takes patience, my foot […]

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness. – 2 Peter 1:5-6 As my feet hit the pavement, with each stride my body screams for me to stop. I will myself to keep going.  […]

2 Peter 1: 5-7 “So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others …” I’ve spent my entire life in church. I vividly remember […]