by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 24, 2012 | prayer, prayer for others, Trust, worry
(Image found at http://www.middletownbiblechurch.org/worryfea/worry1.htm)Let’s continue our occasional focus on worry with another excerpt from my book, Partly Cloudy with Scattered Worries. This time, let’s look at I Peter 5:7, “casting...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 22, 2012 | demands, knowing and understanding God, marriage, obedience, Trust, voice of God, worry
Some time ago I posted about Jesus’s question to Paul, “‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads’” (Acts 26:14 NASB).(If you want to check out that post, click on goads.)That verse and what...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 20, 2012 | courage, encouragement, heaven, hope, hopelessness, obedience, temptation, trials
The older I become, the more aware I am of the passage of time. Not just, “Wow, this year is going so fast. It’s already August.” But the perspective of looking at my five-year-old grandson, Raffi, and thinking that some day (if the Lord tarries),...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 17, 2012 | fear, first love, love, perfectionism, unconditional love, worry
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.netOne afternoon after I’d been a Christian for about five years, I drove home from church feeling downhearted. Why can’t I love God enough? I asked myself over and over again. I was afraid that if I didn’t love him “enough,” He would never...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 15, 2012 | self talk, self-protective sinful strategies, sin, temptation
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net”It’s actually easier to resist adultery than eating too much pie.”That’s what I wrote in a past post. The thought sprang into my mind and it seemed contrary to what I was writing at the time. But it seemed true...
