by Elizabeth Mitchell | Mar 7, 2023 | Answers
“Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” (Mark 5:19) If for a moment I conclude that God is far removed from my world, I need only skim a few pages of the Gospels to gather an altogether different...
by Elizabeth Mitchell | Oct 4, 2021 | Gratitude
“Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the Lord; exult before him.” (Psalm 68:4) My grandmother owned an enormous bunch of curiously designed keys that jingled as she moved around her home...
by Elizabeth Mitchell | Aug 31, 2021 | Answers
“You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” (2 Timothy 2:1) “Strengthened” by your grace is a wonderful place to start the morning. Your father’s heart sees me precisely where I am. With you, I am not a problem to be solved or a...
by Elizabeth Mitchell | Oct 27, 2020 | Courage
“Peace, I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” (John 14:27 Christ arrived on planet earth with this mission of peace in his DNA. To pass on to us what we could...
by Elizabeth Mitchell | Jun 16, 2020 | Gratitude
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. (Isaiah 26:3) I discovered growing up that if my father learned of someone with a particular need, he would stand beside that person, extend his hand, and discreetly tuck cash into...