Rebuilding Walls have weakened, crumbling, sinking low to ground, sagged like our spirits as they view the sorry edifice before us Bare bones of former beauty now stained with such decay And there is no Nehemiah, or any other builder to be found who can shore up this shell restore […]
Nehemiah
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I thought I could handle this one myself. That I didn’t need help from others. A ‘pioneering, do-it-yourself’ attitude had worked its way into the rebuilding of my life. I thought to myself ‘I don’t need others to know what is going on, I can handle it all, it will work out ok.’ […]
This was never going to be a typical funeral. This was the celebration of a life well lived by a mother to 11 children. A strong farmer’s wife who not only milked the cows and preserved the fruit, but also cared with deep love for each of her children. One […]
Sometimes the knife of life drives right to the core of your being. It wrenches around till your bleeding in grief. Your speechless in shock, numb in movement and it feels like the very essence of life has been sucked out of you. You mourn because there is no other worthy […]
Quick answer: Real recovery rarely starts with a solution — it starts with someone being willing to ask a deep, honest question and stay present for the answer. The Biblical leader Nehemiah began the recovery of a devastated Jerusalem not with a plan, but by asking how the people and […]