One step at a time

  Silent Battlefield 2 Chron 20 tells us of a time in Israel’s history when total annihilation seemed impossible to escape. King Jehoshaphat and the people of God were surrounded on every side by numerous armies. He called a fast. He called a prayer meeting where they literally fell on their face before God as a nation and cried out, “God we don’t know what to do but our eyes are on you.“ God answered. He told them to march out. He told them they would prevail. He told them He would be with them.  The king consulted the people and it was their decision to send out the worshipers first. They chose to let worship lead their warfare … to be their warfare. They chose to lead their entire army with praises to God. They chose to … rather than send out their greatest warriors with their most powerful physical weapons … To send out their trust and faith in God through their loud and vibrant worship. A tactic that in the natural seems almost foolish because it would surely alert the en...

  Momma’s Remember “Rand is there too.” She said it so casually it stunned me a little. Like he was in the next room, at a friend’s or in a his room with his long teenage legs drapped over the side of his bed talking to that girl with the freckles he liked so much. But, no.   Rand was not in any of those places.   He never would be.   His tiny body was in the family cemetery his Momma was now referring to now.   He had barely gotten here from Heaven when SIDS stole him and he returned.   A beautiful baby boy.   His Momma remembered.   His smell, his eyes, his sound when sleeping, her hopes, her dreams, the way he felt inside her, the joy when he was given to her. …. Momma’s remember … and in some way … their children live on with them and in them   … even when they don't.  Decades after he’s gone her heart still has him in the center of her thoughts. Momma’s remember. ***** She leaned over the casket.   ...