Day 50: What is the Bible?

I’ve heard this question asked a lot and I’ve heard various answers to it throughout the course of my life. This post is intended to encourage you to engage with Scripture in a new way that shines a light on it that ignites a desire to read it, study it, and love it in a […]

Day 43: Creation

I love nature and one of the things I enjoy about being a teacher is having the opportunity to teach science. By the time this post is published, my first graders will be looking at biology and in particular, animal science. Every now and then I find myself going back to Genesis and going over […]

Day 36: The Season of Selah

Return, O my soul, to your rest, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you. —Psalm 116:7 The word selah is an unusual word because we don’t use it often—at least we’re not supposed to because it’s a word we aren’t supposed to read. I’m a Bible nerd and I want to name one of my […]

Day 29: Resurrection

We don’t have to wait until Easter to talk about resurrection One of my favorite verses of Scripture is John 12:24, “Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”‭‭The context for this verse […]

Day 22: Results

Doing the same thing will get you the same results Depending on our goals and aspirations, the way we go about things may vary. The process we take in achieving where we want to go and what we want to do in life leads us to the results we ultimately have. Results may vary also. […]

Day 15: Resilience

One of the realities of life is that trouble does not go away because we turn the page on the calendar. We can name it, claim it, blab it, grab it, call it, haul it, we can anoint 2022 in as much oil as we want, but the truth is, this year will be as […]

Day 8: Restoration

Another chance is one of God’s greatest gifts. Many people make New Year’s Resolutions that involve them taking on new challenges, creating new vision boards, wanting to do this, wanting to do that, and they are oblivious to the reality that there is quite a bit they did not achieve from last year’s list. One […]

Day 1: Resolution

Thank You, God, for another day and another year; all I want in 2022 is to be healed and made whole. Until next time, continue to stay guided by grace, Tra

Jesus: Silent Night

Here is a special Christmas edition of the Advent series Jesus. This post is from Christmas Eve 2019 entitled, “Silent Night.” The reason for the season is that Jesus was born to reconcile; that is His ultimate purpose, He reconciles us to each other and to God. Jesus is the Mediator between humans and God […]

Jesus: Hope

Hope is the alternative to what we see. When life takes a turn that we did not expect, hope offers a new route, a new chance, a new expectancy that something good will come out of this. There is nothing wrong with hope; hope is the anticipation that we will be surprised at the arrival […]