Anna's Ideas

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.   - Corrie Ten Boom Hello, friends! I am so excited to participate in the Seven Days of Hope blog tour! Hope is an important topic to me, especially over the past year.  We all know 2020, and the first few months of 2021, have been crazy.  For me at least, very few things went "as planned."  Being quarantined more than a few times, I found it easier and easier to spiral into a state of pure depression.  During those long, challenging days in March, April, May, and then again in September, December, March (a year later), I began to truly understand the concept of hope. Because music seems to be a special language to me, I ended up with an entire playlist within just a few days.  I know I'm not the only one in need of hope. As I share this with you, my prayer is that you find the same hope, the same strength, I gained from these beautiful words. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDSr7zYMomnaY3ytDlHPx...

Is God a God of Comfort? A guest post by bestselling author Angela R. Watts It is easy to lose ourselves in the worldly spectrum of fleshly comforts--compulsive shopping, obsessive eating, the list of comforting, yet harmful, things we seek is a long one. But these are momentary bursts of happiness. True comfort does not come from a full shopping cart, a really good pizza, or a day spent binging 90’s sitcoms. Every person faces trials in their life. Some might seem mountainous, some might seem trivial. If you find yourself swamped in trivial disasters with a giant mountain looming ahead--you aren’t alone. We’ve all been there. The best way to find hope, however, is first, to find comfort in the Lord. The Merriam-Webster definition of comfort is this: “: to give strength and hope to: CHEER” Does this sound familiar? “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” J...