Covered Mercies: The Year of Firsts

My family and I struggled with the first year of celebrations, special days, and birthdays. Our granddaughters, daughter and my husband and I thought carefully of how to move through that year without our son, brother, and uncle. The loss of Joshua hit us hard, to say the least, but we were determined to work […]

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Thursday Verse ~ Everlasting Life

“But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him, shall never be more a thirst: but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14 [1587 Geneva Version]).  Father, You loved so deeply that You gave us this gift of Your […]

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Tuesday Verses ~ Water of Life

“For his disciples were gone away into the city, to buy meat. Then said the woman of Samaria unto him, ‘How is it, that thou being a Jew, asks drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Jews meddle not [no dealings] with the Samaritans.’ Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knew that […]

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God’s Mercies after Suicide: Blessings Woven through a Mother’s Heart

What if you were in the house when your child shot himself there? What if you held him as his heartbeat stilled? What if Satan said in your ear, “Now where is Your God?” This is a memoir about the loss of my son, Joshua, when he was twenty-five. It is an honest account of […]

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Wednesday Verse ~ God Has Sent

“For he [Christ] whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God: for God giueth [gives] him not the Spirit by measure [immeasurable]” (John 3:34 [1587 Geneva Version]).  Father, Jesus has all at His request from You. He is denied nothing. Help us to better understand the power of You and Your Son as we pray. In Christ’s holy name […]

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Friday Verses ~ Given From Heaven

“John answered, and said, ‘A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. Ye your selves are my witnesses, that I said, I am not that Christ, but that I am sent before him. He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth […]

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Thursday Verses ~ Behold, He Baptizes

“Then there arose a question between John’s disciples and the Jews, about purifying. And they came unto John, and said unto him, ‘Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jorden, to whom thou barest witness, behold, he baptizes, and all men come to him’” (John 3:25, 26 [1587 Geneva Version]).  Father, some of us have heard […]

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Tuesday Verse ~ And Was Baptizing

“After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing” (John 3:22 [1587 Geneva Version]).  Father, Your Son is God come down from heaven to take away the sins of those who believe and trust in You. In Christ’s holy name we are joyful. Hallelujah~

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Friday Verses ~ That Light Came

“He that believes in him, is not condemned: but he that believes not, is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the Name of that only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that that light came into the world, and men loved darkness rather then that light, because their deeds were evil” (John […]

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Thursday Verse ~ World Through Him

“For God sent not his Son into the world, that he should condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved” (John 3:17 [1587 Geneva Version]).  Father, help us to never forget Who saves us from being lost forever. Christ was the perfect sacrifice, the lamb of God. In His holy name we […]

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