Christian know this - in any given situation there are two things at play. The things we can see and the things we can't see. We can see the betrayal and we can feel the heartache. We can see the roadblock and we can feel defeated. We can see the challenge and we can feel overwhelmed. We can see the dream crashing and we can feel crushed. We can see the mountain and we can feel the impossibility. But often what we can't see with our natural eyes, is the hand of the Lord movin

My husband was standing in the bedroom as I left and I turned off the light by accident. I quickly turned it back on and laughed. "I'm sorry. I have a habit of turning the light off every time I leave a room. It's engrained in me." This made me think about my dad when I was a child. Whenever one my siblings or I left a light on he would call us back to turn it off. I can't tell you how many times this happened! Over and over again he patiently stood by the light switch

This morning on my way to work one of my new favorite gospel songs came on and as I started to sing it another song started interrupting it. I was on that stretch of highway that always loses this station so I kept on singing even though this other song kept trying to play, and it made me think of how that's life sometimes. We're reaching for God. We're trying to listen to his voice and then this other tune starts vying for our attention. Maybe it's the song of discontent or