“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 But! That doesn’t mean we are going to like, or even understand, everything that happens when it happens. Yet, we are called to trust … Continue reading
The Gift of Choice!
We have been given the gift of CHOICE – not always in our circumstances, but always in our perspective and in our willingness to receive God’s encouragement, peace and God’s very present Life and Love with us and within us. … Continue reading
Rescued To Live In The Light…and To Be Christ’s Light To Others!
“For God has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” – Colossians 1:13-14 Because of God’s great love – because … Continue reading
JESUS HAS RISEN! Always Remember!
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did … Continue reading
Today is Saturday of Holy Week – the Quiet, Dark, Confusing Day.
On Thursday we went to a Maundy Thursday service. There we remembered that during His last Passover meal with His apostles, Jesus gave us a new command: “Love one another as I have loved you.” This was the same night that Jesus … Continue reading
Lent: A Time to Give Up and Take On Something – in Response to Christ’s Love
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent – a season of reflection on the incomparable sacrifice of Jesus in dying for the forgiveness of our sins and offering us the gift of eternal life with our Holy, Loving Abba-God. … Continue reading
Each New Day…Each New Moment…I Need Jesus.
Each day. Each Moment. I need Jesus. I know I am signed, sealed, delivered – I’m Yours [JESUS] for all eternity. (Yeah, go ahead and sing that phrase by Stevie Wonder! I always do!) I know there is not anything … Continue reading
HAPPY NEW YEAR, MY FRIENDS!
HAPPY NEW YEAR, MY FRIENDS! Welcome 2013. Welcome each day. Welcome each moment. Welcome each breath. May we each choose to live each year, each day, each moment, each breath as if they are as truly irreplaceable, unrepeatable as they … Continue reading
G.A.T.H.E.R. – A Trauma/Crisis Intervention Strategy
G.A.T.H.E.R. – A Trauma/Crisis Intervention Strategy © Sylane Mack, Author, Speaker, Counselor Transformed By Grace, Inc. GATHER TOGETHER – hug, hold, sit, sob, scream – and even laugh and play together. You are alive. AFFIRM the pain, the fear, the … Continue reading
October 18, 2012 – Celebrating God’s Merciful, Life-Renewing Love!
“…if only I had let God hold me when I wuz a younger man, I never would’uv done the things to y’all that I done.” – These were Dad’s words ten years ago today on October 18, 2002. Dad, at … Continue reading