by Carolyn Rice | Dec 19, 2018 | Uncategorized |
For the Lord will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the Lord; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody. Isaiah 51:3 NKJV Some people have...
by Carolyn Rice | Dec 12, 2018 | Uncategorized |
The Meeting Last April I got to sit and talk with literary agent Steve Laube while attending a writer’s conference. For my fifteen-minute appointment, we discussed the book I had just finished. He had some wonderful feedback and ideas to make it even better....
by Carolyn Rice | Dec 5, 2018 | Uncategorized |
Have you felt that people defined you as broken? Have you experienced the sting of rejection as you saw judgement in their eyes? There was a man in Acts three who was also defined by what ailed him. The Bible says he had been lame from birth and was carried to the...
by Carolyn Rice | Nov 28, 2018 | healing
Imagine with me a beautiful bride, dressed in the most wonderful of dresses. Her groom sees her as the loveliest woman in the land, and only has eyes for her. But then, imagine what it is like for him when he sees that his beautiful bride does not see herself as he...
by Carolyn Rice | Nov 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
When will you heal me God? It always seemed that no matter how far I came in my healing, there was so much more brokenness to work through. Would I ever truly be healed? I heard people preach that being in the scriptures would heal you, so I spent hours studying, so...
by Carolyn Rice | Nov 14, 2018 | healing
That sinking feeling in your stomach. That feeling of disappointment that lingers on and on. The tears that come, and then the anger. Anger that what you expected from someone else did not come. You wanted to be understood. You wanted to be accepted. Whatever...
by Carolyn Rice | Nov 7, 2018 | healing
How to stand back up when life has crushed you. My son was little at the time, but he had big insights. We had taken him to a place called flower world on a weekend outing. Flower world is a nursery that is I don’t know how many acres and has thousands of...
by Carolyn Rice | Oct 31, 2018 | spiritual growth |
Finding Peace in the midst of life’s storms “What’s wrong?” My friend asked when she saw me in the foyer at church Sunday morning. I quickly explained a situation that seemed as if it would never change. She listened, as a serious look crossed her face, “You...
by Carolyn Rice | Oct 24, 2018 | words |
Words had wounded my soul. I was walking around with them replaying in my head all the time. “Read the Bible aloud, so that it gets down into your spirit.”The teacher paced back and forth as he spoke to the Bible college class. Everywhere I went, I kept hearing about...
by Carolyn Rice | Oct 17, 2018 | healing
That day, the pastor prayed over each one of us in our Bible college class. One of the students recorded the class, and blessed others with copies of the prayers prayed over them. Mine gave me comfort for years. It reminded me in the midst of brokenness and trials...
