“I can’t stay silent
Though they want to keep me quiet…”

“But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.” Luke 1:13 NIV

“Lord, I am tired of today. Please give me a new day.” And it’s not even 7:00 AM.

About ten years ago, my husband and I stumbled upon a Christmas shop near Colonial Williamsburg on a hot summer day. A dangerous place for any husband to take their wife.

Am I a mood-killer if I say, “We’re so trapped in this Christmas rat-race that it hijacks the joy of Christmas”?

I have a soft spot for reading the Bible from cover to cover. Once I hit Revelations, I automatically bounce back to Genesis.

Sin clings to me like cat hair.

I’m not good at finishing movies. Here’s as far as I got with one of them…

One day I shared my testimony with Diana, a stranger sitting next to me in the airplane. She claimed to be an atheist. Then she attributed all my suffering to my attracting negative energy around me. … I don’t see problems as bad luck, a punishment from the Almighty. Otherwise, apostle Paul really hit the jackpot of bad luck (persecuted, suffered hunger, cold, shipwrecked, jailed, loneliness, no marriage… ) Yet, he says in Romans 5: 3 “we glory in our suffering”.