2021 What’s Next? Happy New Year! What a year it was due to the COVID-19 coronavirus, which caused a worldwide pandemic. A lot of fatigue, uncertainty, political divide, social unrest, and discouragement carry over in 2021. How do you plan and set goals amid the carryover of this nasty virus? Lord, please remove the fear… Read More »
Is God Good All The Time?
“If a thing is free to be good, it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth… Read More »
Anger: The Number One Offender
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~ Mark Twain Every person deals with anger; it’s a God-given emotion; therefore, anger in itself cannot be wrong. When we allow our anger to exceed its limits and intended… Read More »
Coming Out Of The Closet
“ The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them. ” ~ Rachel Maddow When you first read the title of this devotional, what were your initial thoughts? That this devotional was about people from the LBGTQ+ community coming out… Read More »
Greed: The Bottomless Pit
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” ~ Erich Fromm Is there such a thing as enough is enough? When do we ever have enough wealth, power, and food? In 2020 we watched greed enormously rear its ugly head. The pandemic… Read More »
Community Healing and Restoration
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder, I work the more I live.” ~ George Bernard Shaw If we… Read More »
Please Don’t Judas Me
The song “Please Don’t Judas Me” was written in 1975 by the Scottish songwriter’s Peter Agnew, Manny Charlton, Darrel Sweet, Dan McCafferty and released under their band’s name Nazareth. This song appeared on their best selling album of all-time “Hair Of The Dog.” The song refers to Judas Iscariot, a disciple of Jesus Christ, who… Read More »
Raised By Goats
On January 11, 2021, the National College Football Championship was played between Alabama and Ohio State. A game in which Alabama won 52-24. During the first half aired a commercial from Ford Motor Company promoting the all-new Bronco Sport G.O.A.T. that gives its owners 4×4 offroad capabilities. The commercial tells the story of a colt… Read More »
Choose Hope Not Fear
HALO’S Daily Soul Food Choose Hope Not Fear “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” ~ Nelson Mandela 2020 has been a test of who we are as individuals and as a society. People of faith were tested on whether they believed in a God of abundance or the fear of scarcity. We… Read More »
