Today's podcast is a poem that I had written as a part of the book Nine Fruits of The Vine and Five Little Foxes.

Not all financial gifts are the same.

Showing hospitality toward one another.

Kindness is an essential ingredient in healthy relationships.

It is not easy to hand our probs one day at a time but we must try. If we do, God will give us strength of heart and peace of mind about what is happening to us. We should remember when god instructs us to do something he gives us the strength and peace of mind to do it. And he only asks us to do what we are capable of doing.

As important as private devotion is, public worship gives us the opportunity to hear other voices in a spiritual setting. We hear from God through the experiences of others: how they have discovered what God is to them and what he wants from them.

Most people struggle with the discipline to make time for Quiet Time. We should know that we're a member of a not so exclusive club; most of us are in it. This struggle is not unusual.

When we feel God given assurance that we will be okay, we experience an inward peace and an expectation of the best outcomes in difficult times or when we have to make difficult decisions. This inward assurance is the benefit of faith when our faith comes from God.