SSS* Week #10- I dropped my red Kool-Aid filled cup . . . not in the kitchen where it could be mopped up, but in the carpeted living room. But hey, this adolescent came up with a solution: I’d clean it up, cover the red stains on the carpet with a huge décor pillow we never moved and my mother would never know what happened. Genius! She came home. All was well. Until several days later when she just so happened to look up and notice red splatter stains on the ceiling. Who knew the Kool-Aid Continue Reading
5 Chapters & 5 Points to Remember
SSS* Week #9- The book of Second Samuel opens with the story of an Amalekite who lied to David about Saul’s death. David killed this man for being willing to “destroy the Lord’s anointed” (2 Samuel 1:14). After mourning the deaths of Saul and Jonathan, the Lord told David to go to Hebron. There the tribe of Judah accepted him as their king. Meanwhile, in opposition, Abner, the commander of Saul’s army, decided to make Ish-Bosheth, Saul’s son, king of the remaining tribes of Israel. Here we Continue Reading
I Wept. I Went. I Won.
SSS* Week #8 I walked in one day to find my home in ruins! I wept. I picked up the phone and called a lady I knew to be resourceful. She told me to “trust God.” I was not exactly sure what that meant from a practical stand point. I was given a phone number and an address and told that if I showed up consistently and took full advantage of all that was being offered, I’d get the results I so desperately desired. I went. One day I realized that in the course of time, Continue Reading