by Diane W. Bailey | Jun 21, 2012 | Diane's Posts
He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their sorrows. Psalms 147:3 Nothing is more devastating than being betrayed by an intimate friend. Someone who knows all our secrets. Someone who shares the same friends and church. Maybe it is something small, like your...
by Diane W. Bailey | Jun 20, 2012 | Diane's Posts
I hold her in my arms, and she smiles, her laughter is my undoing. Carried in the safety of her mother for the better part of a year, now carried in her arms every six months. Each half-year we will see the doctor, the threat of a disease we never knew existed, and...
by Diane W. Bailey | Jun 19, 2012 | Diane's Posts
Before Eve, it was God and Adam, walking in the garden together, naming the animals together, and receiving instructions, God to man. God’s instructions to Adam were to “cultivate and keep the garden”. It was Adam’s responsibility under the...
by Diane W. Bailey | Jun 18, 2012 | Diane's Posts
“I didn’t asked to be born!” shouted my teenage daughter from the bedroom. “It’s not fair. Nobody else has to do this!” Good thing you didn’t ask to be born today, I thought to myself. Today the answer would be no, not today. “Well tell God, because He thought it was...
by Diane W. Bailey | Jun 15, 2012 | Diane's Posts
At the beach this week I’m reading a book about the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, named, Bonhoeffer – pastor, martyr, prophet,spy, by Eric Metaxas. Though it is much more academic that I had intended to read, I am fascinated by how things transpired...