Patience: Strength Will Rise As We Wait Upon the Lord

“Mommy is breakfast ready yet?” “Mommy are we there yet?” “Mommy when is it going to be time to….”  Patience. A word we hear from the time we’re old enough to understand it, until our dying day. We learn about it in cute songs like “Have Patience.” We memorize the fruit of the spirit passage …

Faithfulness is like a spiritual fiber

As we journey through this spring season, noticing the newness and growth brought by God in our surroundings, I reflect on the Spirit’s fruit—faithfulness from Galatians 5:22-23. Paul’s use of the term “fruit” here illustrates what naturally flows from our lives when the Spirit is at work. Like a tree produces an apple packed with …