by Kathy Collard Miller | Oct 29, 2018 | anxiety, beliefs, faith, God's heart, God's love, holiness, knowing and understanding God, love, trust, Uncategorized, worry
Someone has said, “If you have one eye on yesterday and the other eye on tomorrow, you’ll look at today cross-eyed.” That’s what regrets do to us. It can paralyze us from thinking positively about God’s present working and even steal our enthusiasm for the future. We...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Oct 21, 2018 | anxiety, beliefs, faith, God's heart, God's love, holiness, knowing and understanding God, love, trust, Uncategorized, worry
Have you ever found yourself saying something like, “I’ll never be like her” or “I always want to be like him!”? I’m sure we all have and it seems like a really good thing to focus on avoiding the mistakes of some and emulating the...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Oct 13, 2018 | abiding, anxiety, beliefs, faith, God's heart, God's love, holiness, knowing and understanding God, love, trust, worry
Larry and I were bemoaning the fact we study but can’t remember what we studied. “Kath, it sure is sad we can’t remember what we’ve read in all these books and often even the Bible!” Larry and I were commiserating with each other as we...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 16, 2018 | God's heart, God's love, knowing and understanding God, love, Pure-Hearted, surrender, trust, unconditional love
If Jesus had eyes of love for the rich young ruler, then He surely has eyes of love for me and you in our disobedience. When I was a child, I envisioned Jesus and God not with eyes of love but with burning disapproval and judgment. I pictured Him standing up in...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 13, 2018 | anger, children, God's heart, God's love, love, parenting, patience, trust, unconditional love
What’s valuable to your child? Is it the same as yours? When my daughter, Darcy, was in elementary school, I happened to be walking by her room and heard her crying behind her closed door. Not just crying, but sobbing. All sorts of horrible situations raced...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 4, 2018 | dependence, depression, encouragement, faithfulness, God's love, knowing and understanding God, love, obedience, people pleasing, relationships, self-protective sinful strategies, unconditional love
When I was in third grade, I was Mrs. Leighton’s “teacher’s pet.” Everyone knew, especially my fellow students, that Mrs. Leighton favored me. The feeling of her favor was like drinking living water for my child’s thirsty soul. Mrs. Leighton, for...
