Be the One
I pulled out the two prayer journals recently, from 2022 and 2023. I was looking for something I had written down. I had heard it in my spirit when I was praying. That happens sometimes. Not an every-time-I-pray-occurrence , but when it does, I make note of it and mark the page. I share it only when I feel led. I feel like we (the church body) are actually "walking in" that particular word right now. Over a year later. There was one word I was honing in on: Chaos. The tornadoes ripped through our neighborhoods in January, and many other types of storms have landed in the lives of our friends and loved ones since then. It doesn't have to be weather related...it's just life. In two recent Bible studies with my “small group”, we looked at two women in the Bible. First, Ruth. The following semester we dove headfirst into a rarely talked about widow woman named, "Anna". Both Ruth and Anna suffered much loss. Yet in their loss—they bot