Recently, the song “Beauty for Ashes” by Crystal Lewis has been in my head and in my spirit. You can listen to it on my playlist on the very bottom of this page. Here are the lyrics to the song: “He gives beauty for ashes Strength for fear Gladness for mourning Peace for despair When…

1 Peter 4:4-5 “Of course, your former friends are very surprised when you no longer join them in the wicked things they do, and they say evil things about you. But just remember that they will have to face God, who will judge everyone, both the living and the dead.”This passage refers to when you…

1 Peter 1:3-9 “…Now we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay. And through your faith, God is protecting you by his power until you receive this salvation, which is ready to be revealed…

James 1:2,3 2 Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing…

Recently, I decided to read Psalm 37. I’m not exactly sure why I read that chapter in particular, but I suppose the verse about delighting in the Lord and Him giving you the desires of your heart has always stood out to me. I guess I wanted to see what else the Psalm had to…

Last Saturday I went to a pro-life convention for teenagers. I’ve always been against abortion, but I treated it more like an issue than an actual problem that needs fixing. I wrote this poem in response to what I heard and what I feel about life: “Life”By Laura Prosapio Little hands and little feet,A constantly…

Last night at CREW, Pastor Erik talked about imagining everything that we want for our future. He mentioned that when we were little, our dreams and future expectations were virtually endless; and now that we are older, we think that those dreams are impossible because of how the world is with certain standards and whatnot.During…

God has been showing me lately that He is the only one capable of satisfying my whole being. Nothing in this world can fill the deep longing inside of me. Though the menu choices are very appetizing, I know that they won’t be the best for me after I eat them. The thing that needs…

I love to read poetry. One of my cousins loaned me a book called The Best Loved Poems of the American People that belonged to my late great aunt. This book was published in 1936. It is incredible to read literature from decades ago.This is one of the poems that I came across: Be The…

Esther 4:14“If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?”Just as Mordecai told Esther that she was placed where she was…