Musings & More by Wendy

   The hardest part of living as a Christian, at least for me, is holding on tight to faith that God, our Father, is truly present in our struggles. Please note that I did not say it is impossible to have faith that God is present, but hard to hold tightly to that faith. Face it - life deals out a lot of garbage at those of us who believe in the One Who created all things with a fiercely burning fire that will not be snuffed out! Though we are new creations in Christ, we still have remnants of our old selves, and this is where we live: in the middle of spirit and flesh. I know that I naturally want to find pleasure and instant satisfaction (flesh), but the fact is we now have to understand that those are temporary gratifications - that the focus needs to now be examining why our flesh wants the immediate satisfactions and then allow our spirit to help us in denying our flesh if it is not going to glorify God. See, in the flesh, we want to glorify ourselves - but when we glo...

Dear Readers (or just me someday in the future), In my last post, I was feeling despair after having lost the job I had maintained for ten years.  But the despair was not so much a woe is me as much as I lamented about not having prepared for the end of employment.  I fully trusted God to open the door to a new opportunity and He did! I owe much praise to my Father above Who goes before me and also to my earthly father who has some amazing connections in this city.  It was at a function he attended that he struck up a conversation with a local business owner.  She said something that resonated with my dad, who then shared that statement with me: "It's not what you know, but who you know" that started a chain of events that floored me.  Within a few days of that conversation at a unrelated function, I found myself gainfully employed - with benefits!   Most of you know that I have been struggling keeping my medical care stable with ObamaCare options and ...