1. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  2. Finding rest in God when the “what ifs”come calling
  3. We have to “remember” that God remembers us. He has not fallen away. For God to remember us means he is working for our good; a restoration.
  4. Honest confession brings us into the fatherly care of God where we are always greeted with grace, mercy, peace, love, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
  5. What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
  6. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
  7. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  8. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  9. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  10. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.