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
Take Your Own Advice
SSS* Week #7 I am known to jokingly ask a friend to please record, save, and be prepared to repeat back to me the advice that is about to spew out of my mouth. Chances are, I will one day need to take and apply the advice I am sharing with them to my own situation. Looks like David can relate. He had an opportunity to destroy Saul as he stood alone and vulnerable in a cave. Instead, David decided to only cut off a piece of his robe because he was determined to not use force to get the Continue Reading
What’s In It For Me?
SSS* Week #6 The events of Spending the Summer In Samuel are beginning to add up. We’ve gone from the miraculous birth of Hannah’s baby boy to the growing fury of King Saul. What I love most about the countless major moments in scripture is all that is in it for me. As we read through these passages, we can ask ourselves, “What lesson can I learn from these events?” “What encouragement is here that can get me going as I deal with my own situation?” “In what way is this passage Continue Reading