by Jennifer Barker | Apr 19, 2020 | Family, Health, Religion
“Change and decay in all around I see—O, Thou who changest not, abide with me.” It’s hard to remember a time I wasn’t dealing with a great deal of change. It seems that change is something that’s always with us, in one form or another. I’ve occasionally wished I could...
by Jennifer Barker | Mar 29, 2020 | Health, Religion
I’m feeling grateful and hopeful today for the opportunity to join with millions of people across the earth to fast and pray to our Father in Heaven to heal our hearts, our bodies, our families, our lands, and our governments, and to help us learn from experiencing...
by Jennifer Barker | Mar 22, 2020 | Family, Health, Religion, Self-care
This week I was determined to focus on the good as I kept my heart open to trusting the Lord and His goodness and love. It’s easier to remember that nothing can really go “wrong” when God holds us, the entire world, in His kind and capable hands and is aware of...
by Jennifer Barker | Mar 15, 2020 | Family, Health, Religion
“Fear, which can come upon people in difficult days, is a principal weapon in the arsenal which Satan uses to make mankind unhappy. He who fears loses strength for the combat of life in the fight against evil. Therefore the power of the evil one always tries to...
by Jennifer Barker | Mar 8, 2020 | Family, Health, Parenting, Religion
“It is the wounded Christ who is the captain of our soul—he who yet bears the scars of sacrifice, the lesions of love and humility and forgiveness. “Those wounds are what he invites young and old, then and now, to step forward and see and feel. Then we remember with...
by Jennifer Barker | Feb 2, 2020 | Family, Health, Religion
“And this is life eternal, that they may know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent.” John 17:3 I’ve been blessed two times in my life with the opportunity to return a tiny bit of the care and service a parent gave to me. Six years ago, my dad...
