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David & Goliath

ByKaroline November 11, 2024 0 Comments

Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him. He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your flesh to...

Furious

ByKaroline October 21, 2024 0 Comments

But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”“It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.” But the Lord said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which...

Hope in God

ByKaroline April 14, 2023 0 Comments

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God: for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. Psalms 43:5 I wrote recently that I've had some physical issues going on - nothing that is fatal (crosses fingers), but it's been irritating, frustrating, and depressing. I was mired in depression until last night, when I had a Eureka moment that sat me up in...

Help my Unbelief

ByKaroline March 24, 2023 0 Comments

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:23-24) Do you ever have moments when you are filled with doubt about God? I do. When I read the news, the stories are filled with articles of people hurting other people. Greed, lust,...

Breathe

ByKaroline March 10, 2023 0 Comments

"When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit..." (John 20:22-23) I've been going through some painful physical issues for the past few months, to the point where I'm in near constant pain. That hasn't been good for my mental health, so I've struggled with depression a lot more than usual. Because I'm stubborn, it took me a while to turn fully to God with...

What a year it’s been

ByKaroline January 18, 2023 0 Comments

Some of you have reached out to me, asking why I haven't posted in a while. There's two reasons. The first is that I haven't felt like I have much to add to anyone's religious growth - I've been coasting along for a while, especially this summer when I had some serious medical stuff come up. The second reason is that I found a spiritual home for myself. I am now a member of the Community of the...

Consolation

ByKaroline February 25, 2022 0 Comments

When I said, "My foot is slipping," your unfailing love, Lord, supported me. When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy." Psalms 94:18-19 It's been 2 years since the start of the COVID pandemic. In that time, most of us have gone through a lot of stress and grief as we struggle with a new way of living. We've dealt with countless deaths (currently over 1,000,000 in the...

Unfathomable

ByKaroline February 11, 2022 0 Comments

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord.“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8-9) The image I've used for this post comes from one of my favorite places in Cuyahoga Valley...

Beloved

ByKaroline April 14, 2021 0 Comments

But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. (Isaiah 43:1) "Karoline, do you know that you are beloved by God?" That was the question my spiritual advisor asked me when we last met. I responded that I knew it in my head but not always in my heart. Her homework for...

Never Be Less Than

ByKaroline March 21, 2021 0 Comments

And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before...

Looking for God

Author: Karoline