If you’d enjoy listening to this JoyPrO post, head to the Keep On With Abigail Wallace podcast. The 1621 Project One half their number was dead. Of the 102 who crossed on the Mayflower, only 50 remained. Of 18 married couples who embarked together, just three remained intact, and of the 15 marriages represented, one…
It has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. G.K. Chesterton wrote that about “the Christian ideal.” But it’s just as true of Paul’s treatment for anxiety. In other words, we can be freed from anxiety. Moment by moment, hour by hour, if we are willing to exert and apply and fight the…
It’s my thing: the annual Thanksgiving post. Mayflower’s Daughter came first. Then came Why Pilgrims Don’t Grumble and smitten by William Bradford, A Poem For Pilgrims. Next was It Really is Good to Give Thanks, and last year I asked Do You Leak? (For the record, it was about roots of grumbling not moms on…
An unthankful person is like a container with a hole in it and all the blessings that are in it just leak out. The grateful person has unlimited capacity to truly enjoy God’s blessings, while the ungrateful person can’t enjoy the blessings he does have. Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, The Attitude to Gratitude Do you leak? Not- Does your…