Dear Mary and Theresa, I knew your Daddy best when we were both in 4th grade together and were neighbors. He lived in a small, white one-story house beyond my back yard in Tennessee. I had just moved to town and he was one of the first friends I met. He was always friendly like that, even at a young age. I remember we would take turns trying to jump off the roof of his one-story house onto the grass below, until we would eventually get in trouble for it. He was braver than I, and he must have been practicing […]
Category:Life, Heart, Soul
“To see myself as beautiful as God sees me.” It’s a little twist on words, isn’t it? I like to say this short prayer as part of my morning daily prayers. I have tried for years to obtain beauty, never quite meeting mine or others expectations. And then it occurred to me. God sees His children as beautiful; He created us in His Image; and God saw all that He had made and it was very good. We are a masterpiece, God’s Masterpiece! If I could only retrain my thinking to see myself as God sees me ~ with tender, loving, compassionate, […]
Category:Life, Heart, Soul
We need rock stars. All kinds, not only those that can bang out a tune on stage, but that helps too. Bono is one of my favorite – he is larger than life and unassumingly quiet at the same time. He just goes about doing what God has given him. The following article is too good to pass up for the opportunity to re-share, and to keep too. If you or anyone you have known has ever had doubts or unanswered questions about life and what we’re supposed to do, Bono seems to explain it better than anyone I have heard, and in a […]
Category:Life, Heart, Soul
I saw a young boy, about 3 years old, sitting in the sand. He had made a fortress of sandcastles, shaped from those little plastic molds, all lined up around him on each side. He was sitting in the middle of the fort playing with his bulldozers and trucks, and on his head, he sported a sahara type hat, which obviously kept him cool during his work. He looked quite content, being the king of his sandcastle fort. As I passed by on my morning beach run, I paused for a moment, hoping to capture some of that pure joy this boy obviously had. Sometimes I think the very […]
Category:Lessons from the Sea
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Sue McCusker is a writer, Bible teacher, and web developer who loves sharing the stories of life, hope, and faith she sees around her every day. She has written for Guideposts and Angels on Earth magazines, and teaches the story of God in women's Bible study.
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