Rose Alane

There are many seasons in life.       A time for mourning and tears.      A time for joy and laughter.      A time for peace.      A time for chaos and order.      A time for death ... and life.       A time for .... so many seasons.  There is ALWAYS time for PRAISE.  No matter what season we are in, God is still the same. He never changes, even when our season is changing all around us.  Life hands us good and bad things. Sometimes it's hard and full of challenges. Even then it's time for praise.  Sometimes life is going smoothly and things seem to fall into place. It's easy to praise Him during those times, although we forget to remember to do it in the easier seasons. It's usually during those times that we need to remember to praise Him for the goodness of who he is and what he has done in our lives.  The seasons of hardship, chaos and grief it's much harder t...

During this Christmas season some of the words that commonly come to mind are … hope, peace and joy. Why do we think of those words when there seems to be stress and busyness connected to this time of the year? Could it be that this is what we long to experience in the midst of all that the world demands of us? In the biblical story of the wisemen that traveled to see Jesus soon after his birth it says that the wisemen felt joy when they saw the star where Jesus was. (Matthew 2:9-10) Where did the joy come from? It came from being in the presence of Jesus.  Here’s the deal… the wisemen had to travel hundreds of miles to get to Jesus. They determined to follow the star that God had shown them because they knew that in the end they would see the King, the Messiah. They wanted to see Jesus!  How do we experience the hope, joy and peace that we long for during this Christmas season? Or any other season for that matter?  We make the choice to pursue it.  We look for it....