Archive for the ‘grace’ Category

Loving The Unlovables

Posted: April 20, 2012 by canvasrhapsody in grace, love, mercy

I work with the public. Most days I interact with anywhere from 100 to 200 people, hateful people, slightly less than intelligent people, whiney people, cussing people, unreasonable people. After a single day of dealing with such folks as these, my patience is all but depleted, and I start to develop a very low opinion [...]

The Reward

Posted: March 21, 2012 by canvasrhapsody in grace, James, truth

Do you ever find yourself getting discouraged because you are doing all the right things, but nobody seems to even notice?  Or maybe you are doing the right things, but there doesn’t seem to be any reward for it?  I imagine that is somewhere we have all found ourselves at one point or another.  For [...]

SONburnt

Posted: February 24, 2012 by canvasrhapsody in faith, grace, love, truth

John 8:31 & 32 “If you abide in my word you are truly my disciples,and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Getting sunburnt……who doesn’t love having that horrible stinging feeling, looking like you have some  type of skin disease and cringing when someone wants to give you a pat [...]

Heart Strings

Posted: February 8, 2012 by canvasrhapsody in grace, Healing, My Story, Ted

Many of you knew our Grandma Joanne… and in fact… some of you even adopted her as your own. For that reason, I wanted to share a special part of her memorial with you. Her wish was to be cremated, and her ashes spread over the Ocean. Our Grandma loved to visit the Oregon Coast, [...]

Uprising

Posted: January 6, 2010 by canvasrhapsody in forgiveness, grace, Interceed, love

Who do you pray salvation for A loved one Your spouse Your children A friend or co-worker everyone? Whenever I am asked to pray for God to work in someone’s life I always think of my mom. She is an addict. She has been for the majority of my life. There is a lot of [...]

Jesus Is Coming

Posted: October 1, 2009 by canvasrhapsody in grace, Jesus is Coming, return

Urgency. Preparedness. Anticipation. Excitement. Purpose. 2 Peter 3:8-9Don’t overlook the obvious here, friends. With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn’t [...]