by Carolyn Rice | Dec 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
One thing my husband and I have seen over and over is the blockage that unforgiveness causes. Unforgiveness causes us to look backwards instead of forward. When we do that the past colors our present because we’re dragging it along like a big weight. It slows us down,...
by Carolyn Rice | Dec 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
I once attended a Bible Study where the woman teaching took out a twenty-dollar bill. She talked to us about how valuable it was. Then she mashed it up in her hands, crumpled it all together, tossed it on the ground and stomped on it. Then she picked it up and showed...
by Carolyn Rice | Nov 23, 2016 | spiritual growth
One of the things I talk about in my book is a vision I had years ago. It was so very vivid and impactful that I remember It clearly to this day. In the vision was a beautiful bride, all dressed in her wedding gown. She was practically glowing she was so beautiful!...
by Carolyn Rice | Nov 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
While training for ministry is when I learned the value of praise and worship. Every other week one of us from the Cleansing Stream Discipleship class would be the one to receive prayer. It was a safe place for us all to deal with our own stuff before we went out to...
by Carolyn Rice | Nov 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
This person hated me. I never imagined that in just a few months from that day I would be hugging them. That day, they stood across from me, talking to the person next to me, and made a conscious effort not to look at me at all. When I’d stepped forward to say...
by Carolyn Rice | Oct 19, 2016 | Uncategorized |
I didn’t have any plans last Halloween, except to go to lunch with my friend. Our family had been through some pretty chaotic months and our hearts were still on the ground. My friend was doing her best to listen and cheer me up. After we had eaten our lunch, and were...
by Carolyn Rice | Oct 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. Psalm 1:1-2 I often wondered what...
by Carolyn Rice | Oct 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Recently, I was looking back upon some notes I made while studying my Bible. In it I had written about someone who had literally made my life miserable for almost twenty years. If I were acting that way I’d want someone to stand in prayer, not stand in judgement. I...
by Carolyn Rice | Sep 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Keep my soul, and deliver me; Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in you ~ Psalm 25:20 NKJV Over and over, as I walked through the effects of trauma and abuse, people would tell me, “Just rest in God. He wants you to rest.” I found this was so much easier said...
by Carolyn Rice | Sep 21, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Sometimes, especially when you are already hurting, it can seem as if the world is on a mission to tear you down. And when you’re broken, tired, hurting and angry, it’s so much easier to remember the negative than the positive. One person says something nice to you,...
