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Mercy and Grace

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 23, 2010 | My Faith Zone

Recently Dr. David Jeremiah preached an impassioned sermon on mercy and grace. He noted that they often appear in the Bible together. That got me to thinking about them separately and jointly in a way I hadn’t previously connected them. That we deserve what we get,...

Guard Your Mind

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 23, 2010 | My Faith Zone

The mind is a powerful thing. It can convince us we’re well, sick, happy or sad–it can skew reason and truth and take in jibberish and spew out logic. The problem is that logic might be twisted, that truth not truth at all. Our minds might convince us...

This is YOUR Moment

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 23, 2010 | My Faith Zone

It begins early in life. “Not right now. When you get bigger, you can do that.” It continues throughout our growing years, and into adulthood. “Now isn’t the right time. Once this or that happens, then you can do that.” We spend a lot of time waiting for the...

Path

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 23, 2010 | My Faith Zone

It’s amazing how many people are in careers and on life paths that they stumbled or fell into without really aiming for that specific job or that specific lifestyle. Oh, a few knew what they wanted to be when they grew up from early on. I freely admit that I...

A Fallen Rose

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 23, 2010 | My Faith Zone

This morning, a mother realized her greatest fear. Her daughter, she thought, overslept, and so she went in to awaken her. Her daughter had died in her sleep. Quietly. Without fanfare or bedside vigils. Without a deathwatch. She just slipped away. She was an...

Calm

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 23, 2010 | My Faith Zone

When you believe, the Bible says, you can experience a peace that passes understanding. I longed for that. I look back at tense times in my life, and wondered where it was hiding, because what I felt was anything but peace. I didn’t even flirt with the fringes of...