Prayer works. Plain and simple. I like it when the answer to prayer is “yes.” Don’t like it so much when the answer is “no.” And it’s hard sometimes for me to really accept that “no” is an answer—just not the answer I want. There’s also a third answer to prayer God gives us: wait. [...]
terimccarthyblahblahblog
Thoughts on life by Teri McCarthy
No Limitations Nor Restrictions Apply
Posted by admin in June 13th, 2009 | 2 comments
Published in faith
A woman was recovering from heart surgery when the Lord appeared by her bedside. “Lord, are you here to take me home?” she asked. (Stop me if you’ve heard this one!) “No,” the Lord replied. “You’ve got 30 more years here on earth.” Well, knowing that , the woman thought while she was in the [...]
Subscribe via Email
Social Feeds
Recommended Reads
Recent Articles
- Waiting…
- I spend a lot of time waiting these days. Waiting for the bus. Waiting for FedEx. Waiting for OTR carpools....
- I’m Simply Not Good Enough
- We are one week from leaving for Lithuania and we still don’t have a place to live. But I keep...
- Heading Back to Lithuania
- Sorry guys. I think I promised not to use my blog for newsletters and self-promotion! Ugh. But again, I'm up...
- Am I Free or Just Loose?
- Annie Dillard makes a very interesting distinction between freedom and just being loose in her book An American Childhood. Daryl...
- Epaphroditus and Fibroid Tumors
- Some things I’ll just never understand this side of heaven. A friend said to me recently, “I don’t want to...
Tag Cloud
abortion
Aeroflot
Afghanistan
Angels
Chernobyl
China
Cliff Schimmels
Corrie ten Boom
CS Lewis
death
Eric Liddell
faith
faithfulness
fasting
Finland
forgiveness
God
God's provision
God's will
healing
Heaven
Helsinki
IICS
Ireland
Jesus
Kathleen Norris
Lithuania
Millennials
missions
Moscow
obedience
original sin
Os Guinness
prayer
Richard Foster
Russia
sin
Southwest Texas State University
Stephenie Meyer
teaching
the Second Coming
Trans Siberian Railroad
USCWM
USSR
vampires