When you feel inadequate

 (When anything short of a miracle won’t be enough!) Dear Family and Friends,, When I first met Bobbi my life was confusing to me. I didn’t have even one true friend, and every time I tried anything, I failed. I was having a hard time believing in God...

When life seems hopeless

From my Journal: December of 1971 “I’VE LOST ALL HOPE. I’VE TRIED TO FIX MYSELF, MY MATE, MY CHILDREN AND MY FRIENDS. IT’S JUST NOT WORKING…WHAT DO I DO NOW?” I was ready to leave my marriage, family, and ministry. The...

When you don’t want to forgive others

Dear Family and Friends, Have things happened in your life that you just can’t leave behind? Forget? Ignore? For me, those terrible memories are more like a snapshot than a moving picture. Snapshots stay frozen in time, but moving pictures move from one scene to...

When you can’t forgive yourself

sa A letter from my heart to yours: My grandfather, Elmer Newton, is one of my heroes. In the first half of his life he served himself and he failed God, his wife and his children. But before he died, God used him to help me understand that God gives mercy for our...

When it seems like God doesn’t care

A Letter from my heart to yours: In the chapter about what to do  with our own guilt I talked about being forgiven and being changed, but sometimes I look at my past failures or my present problems and I’m not sure  God is really there.  There have been...