Hope for the Hurting
Beauty in Every Season
Recently when I was traveling in my home state, the trees were just beginning to change in color. Is I traveled the northern country roads, and I saw the beauty of fall color, I was reminded that change doesn’t happen all at once. Change is a process. It happens...
Beauty in Community
I love autumn! Living in the south, we don’t see much variation in color in the fall. So when I visit the northern states in the fall, I am dumbstruck by the beauty of God’s landscape painting of trees in every shape and hue of greens, yellows, oranges, reds,...
God Makes Everything Beautiful
I have a tendency to compare myself to others. And I suspect I’m not alone in that. As I stop and look at the trees changing their color in fall, not one of them is the same as another. But that doesn’t make any of them less beautiful. Each individual one is...
The Inevitability of Change
I’m from the north, where the trees change color in the fall and dot the landscape with the most vibrant Crayola colors. I haven’t lived up north for a couple decades so when I have the chance to visit the northern states in the fall, anticipation wells up within me. ...
It’s All a Matter of Perspective: You’re an Overcomer!
Have you ever had a time in your life when you experienced so much pain that perhaps you didn’t know if or how you would survive? I have. I’ve gone through times when it literally hurt to draw a breath. Times when I couldn’t pray for God to help me make it...
Temper Tantrum With God
It finally happened…I had my temper tantrum with God. I remember a friend asking me quite some time ago, “Haven’t you ever had a temper tantrum with God?” I was taken aback at the question. I grew up thinking that you shouldn’t get mad at God – that getting...
The Difference a Decade (or Three) Makes
I was thinking recently of some of the ways I'm different now than what I was like as a child. Some things haven't changed. For example, my love of all things chocolate, caramel or peanut butter hasn't changed whatsoever (bring it on!!) Conversely, my negative...
WHETHER YOU THINK YOU CAN, OR YOU THINK YOU CAN’T…
Henry Ford has been quoted as saying, "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." There is so much truth in that. If I think I can do something, I am likely to try, and more often than not, with enough time, practice, perseverence, I...
FINDING SIGNIFICANCE
The media has given us countless story lines about misfits. Just think of Rudolph...the reindeer with the shiny nose who was laughed at and not allowed to play in all the reindeer games. Or what about that lovable, if not clueless Charlie Brown. Within his own...
One of God’s Greatest Gifts
In my estimation, I would have to say that friendship is one of God's greatest gifts. I just spend an extended weekend with a long time friend and it just felt like new life was breathed into me! It was comfortable and easy. No expectations. I didn't even have...
Dr. Michelle Bengtson
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