there is a place…

There is a place of blessing

where LAUGHTER comes easy

and hard times are SHARED;

where KINDNESS is valued

and LOVE never spared,

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forever mine…

If you see a married couple still in love through the years, you may think how lucky they are. But in marital relations, there’s no such thing as luck.

They made many compromises, they overlooked each others’ faults. They forgave many mistakes & endured many problems. They spent years learning to understand one another.

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blessing the darkness

Some people might say that we find God only when we need Him. Simple words, but true. It’s like looking for the light switch in a dark room. No one goes searching for it until the sunlight has gone. Similarly, darkness can impel our search for God.

I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night – but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.

Psalm 139:11-12

Genelle Guzman-McMillan was the last survivor pulled from the wreckage after the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001. Genelle tells the story about flirting with faith but choosing to live without it. Then, on September 11, her world fell apart and she found herself in complete darkness, buried alive under a mountain of rubble.

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