Star for the Journey

blessings

  • Thanksgiving and the Sacrifice of Gratitude

    If you look around this time of year, it almost feels like Thanksgiving is getting smaller. Store shelves leap from skeletons to snowmen, from cobwebs to candy canes, and somewhere in the middle there’s this quiet little day about gratitude that can easily get squeezed out. No costumes, no glittering lights, no marketing mascot to…

  • Beyond Inheritance: When God Writes a New Family Story

    The first time the line was spoken, the mountain shook. Sand burned in the Sinai sun, and a nation camped under thunder. Moses stood with tablets in his hands, and over Israel there rolled a voice that named God by His own Name: “The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in…

  • The Goodness in the Waiting

    (Inspired by Lamentations 3:25 “The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.”) The Lord is good—so whispers grace,To those who seek His hidden face.Not rushed by time, nor swayed by fear,His presence waits, so calm, so near. The world demands a hurried pace,Yet blessings bloom in patient…