by Diane W. Bailey | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
When you are wind tossed and driven hard by life and awake to dreams dashed– When floodwaters drown your joy, and love seems like stories told to children before bed– When salty seas come crashing in through the cracks in your heart and fear hisses, “I’m...
by Diane W. Bailey | Jan 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
“O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and your foundations I will lay in sapphires, moreover, I will make your battlements of rubies and your gates of crystal and your entire wall of precious...
by Diane W. Bailey | Jan 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Hey friend, are you struggling with how to know you are beautiful? It seems in January and June, women stress over their age and appearance. In January because we have eaten and had fun over the holidays, and June, when we face a summer, and a more revealing...
by Diane W. Bailey | Jan 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Have you ever felt under the weather, under the gun, under bad circumstances? Over used clichés, I know, but they are expressions that we understand. They all indicate that something undesirable is over us – Pressing, holding, smothering the life out of us....
by Diane W. Bailey | Jan 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
He was saved as a young man, with his mother, a lioness, praying with him beside his bed one night. She thought, that with their Amen, life would be easy. But life is never easy especially when the Lord drapes his mantle over such young shoulders. The young,...
by Diane W. Bailey | Jan 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Former Vice-president Dick Cheney is quoted as saying, “if this is dying, I remember thinking, it’s not all that bad.” I remember pausing as I heard those words spoken and staring at the television screen mesmerized by the thought of dying. I was wondering why this...