In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus points to our daily need. “Give us today our daily bread.” Our daily need for bread, for sustenance, points to a deeper daily need for God…indeed….a deeper need for Jesus in our lives. This request for daily bread keeps our relationship with

How can we live in God’s will, and know it?  The second thing that that we can do is to “long for what God has promised”. I came to a point in my life where I longed to get out of my addiction. I longed for peace in my life, a family & children. In many ways, it may not seem a hard t

Often life is a struggle either because of choices we have made or choices that have been made for us by others. We often seek to live in “our will” rather than choose to live in “God’s will”. Living in God’s will means recognizing God is in control. Living in God’s will mean

Joseph and Mary are arriving in Bethlehem–Mary very expectant and ready to have a child any day. As everything would have it, they came to Bethlehem because the Roman government forced them to travel to their home city to be counted in the census and to pay their taxes (I’m so glad we ca

There was a time in my life that I found it very hard to put into perspective what I was going through, the circumstances I was in and much of what I had been taught in church about God. In fact, my skewed view of God was actually “religion” without the relationship. As I started studyin

A little girl and her father were hiking in the mountains. The path up the mountain started to narrow and soon it was a pretty steep drop down so the father took his daughters hand and said, “Sweetheart, hold my hand so that you don’t fall off the path.” The little girl said: ̶