Perspective Category

What Are You Missing?

Do you sit back after experiencing a frustrating day and think, ‘Man, I’m glad that’s over! I need something to drink or eat. Stat!’, or do you analyze it to try to figure out why it happened and how it taught you something? I’m a little of both. I had one of those frustrating days. […]

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Out of Control

I recently read  a couple stories that really struck me. They were very different, but both involved people who were treated unfairly. I know what you’re thinking. Who doesn’t experience something that’s not fair, and what could be so special about these stories that would make them worth reading? Please,  take a minute and read […]

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Good Friday

There’s something special about receiving a compliment, having your meal paid for, or receiving a gift when you weren’t expecting it. It’s like you’ve  won the lottery when someone allows you to be the next one in line at the crowded grocery store – especially when you know they were standing there first. All those […]

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There Will Be a Day

    Imagine you are in your car – on your way to a relative’s house for Christmas. As you drive away from your home, you let out a long sigh as you think about everything you had to do before you left. You  had to get someone to watch your pets. Naturally, it wasn’t […]

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Fear Not – He Has a Plan

Do you trust that God can use something bad for the good? When I read the following, it revealed something that I needed to hear. Maybe you need a change in perspective, too. Betsie and Corrie ten Boom spent time in a concentration camp for hiding Jews in their home during the Nazi occupation of […]

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Peace Like a River

    Photo taken in Riverbend Park — Jupiter, Florida

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Rise Above

From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised. ~ Psalm 113:3  

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Lesson No. 1

I moved to the beautiful state of Florida  last June. Everyone here kept apologizing for the heat and humidity. They told us to just wait, because beginning in November it was going to cool down and that we would LOVE the weather here.  And they were right. As I was walking today, January 13, 2017, […]

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