Category: Women’s Corner

You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep everyone warm.  ~UNKNOWN Along the edge of our vegetable garden were sugarcane and pineapple bushes. They were fence-like  boundaries that separated the vegetables from the banana trees growing on the hillside  going down to the mangroves. Why?  I was told that they were to […]

You cannot love and control at the same time.  Fear controls. Love frees you to be. I’m still learning to  love myself. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (First John 4:18) The […]

“As I walked out the door toward that gate that would lead me to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind,  I’d still be in that prison.”  NELSON MANDELA Arthur Golden writes, “We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction […]

Judging others does not define who they are. It defines who you are.  ~Wayne Dyer I was thinking “triggers” and why we are easily triggered. This morning an incident could have easily triggered me into a crazy raging maniac. However, shame and fear of being flawed didn’t shake me. Of course I was sad but […]

When Jesus sent his disciples out two by two, he tells them how to handle the relationships they will encounter along the way. He tells them what to do if the people they meet, the ones assigned to them, don’t receive their values well.  In effect Jesus said, “If they don’t receive you, shake the […]

 My deepest shame was being fatherless.  One Father’s Day my kids and I went to church. That Sunday,  the worship was a little different from other worship services before.  There was no music, no singing.  It was so quiet except for those inevitable coughs here and there, and the sound of pages turning. I love […]