Use God’s Word as your powerful weapon in life.

Trust God, because he holds your future in his hands.

Help others in the way they need to be helped.

Always do your best, even during difficult times.

Release your hurts into the hands of the risen Christ.

Open your hands symbolically to surrender your wants and worries to God.

Pursue grace, faith, and reason in your walk with God.

Jerome Van Kuiken is a missionary kid, a pastor’s kid, and dean of the School of Ministry and Christian Thought at Oklahoma Wesleyan University.

Give thanks for the Bible as you give yourself to its authority.

Make time to rest and to reconnect spiritually.