Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.

We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.

As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.

God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.

Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.