Life Beyond Horizons

Tag: Trust in God

  • The Upward Call: Navigating Past, Present, and Future

    Looking Back: Beyond Nostalgia and Regret We often view the “good old days” through a filtered lens. While reminiscing brings comfort, there is a subtle danger in losing the context of days gone by. When we strip away the struggles of the past to remember only the simple things, we risk longing for a time →

  • “The Beginning of Sorrows” Death and Life

    A month or two before the pandemic, I was visiting a museum in New York City and I found myself totally engrossed in the image of a sculpture, a small pieta of Jesus, laying in repose after the crucifixion, with an angel on each side – one in mourning for our Lord’s death, the other →

  • Trusting in God

    “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”  Proverbs 3:5-6 Having grown up in a southern baptist church, I have fond memories of the old hymns, the classics, that we would sing in a →

  • What are you afraid of?

    As we grow older doesn’t it seem as if time passes faster and faster? Days turn into weeks, then months, and before we know it, another year has come and gone. What do we have to show for it, other than the realization of being another year older? All those plans we made in our →