“Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again?  Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time?” Psalm 77:8 That verse pretty much sums up how I’ve been feeling recently.  We are just days from closing on our house.  I’ve packed more boxes than I care to count, and from that, have awakened an old back injury which put me into a back brace.  Not a pretty picture just prior to moving. But the icing on the cake came a few days ago when my husband called. “Honey, I’m okay, but I’ve been in a car accident.”   Of course my first…

One day I was walking through the mall, feeling fine, when suddenly a jagged white circle entered my field of vision.  I sat down, called my husband (just in case) and calmly waited for the circle to grow and eventually disappear as I knew it would. Obviously I had experienced this before.  It’s called an Ocular Migraine, a painless, head-ache-less, distortion of the vision.  But of course I didn’t know that the first time it occurred. Those first few episodes were terrifying.   To have your vision suddenly hampered, even without pain, stops you in your tracks and panic takes over. Peter experienced a similar situation.  Peter, a follower of…

I’ve always dreaded new situations. Even as a kid I never wanted to go anywhere new alone. New park, new school, forget it. New dentist, okay ANY dentist is scary, so that doesn’t count. Seriously, I hated calling people I didn’t know or going places I was unfamiliar with.  Can you say INSECURE? Lately the old feelings of anxiety have been making my heart pound again as I begin this new journey of blogging.  I could make a list a mile long of why I should put this off one more day, but at the top of the list is this: NEW SCARY UNFAMILIAR THING. Let’s face it, change is…