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October 7, 2015 by Laura Diehl 2 Comments

How Can You Shatter the Darkness of Halloween?

 

There are so very many opinions about what to do with October 31st in the world of Christians! It runs the spectrum from churches having haunted houses in their basements to families hibernating in their basements with all of the lights turned off so no one thinks they are home.

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I was actually referring to myself, as I have personally run the entire gamut on this! Growing up in the 70s as a pastor’s kid, we had Halloween parties at our church, complete with the referred to haunted house in the basement.

When I got married, we decided (based on teachings we heard on the demonic purpose of the event) we would have nothing to do with it. One year we thought we would just leave the house and go out to eat, but discovered we couldn’t escape it that way, because all the restaurant workers were dressed up and trying to draw our kids into the “excitement”.

halloween 7Over the years, we have done a variety of things. We have rented a movie for the kids and huddled in the basement eating pizza with all of the lights off so no one would come to our door. We have been a part of different harvest festival “alternatives,” and for a few years we actually handed out candy with special Halloween tracts (which my youngest son loved doing because he saw himself as a missionary.)

There are so many directions I could take this article, but for now, I would like to share something a good friend and mentor, Becky Fischer, Founder of Kids in Ministry International, has written about the “holiday” of Halloween.

Here’s an EXCELLENT question I get asked all the time: “When we talk about not participating in Halloween, people bring up Christmas and Easter, saying they are Pagan as well…how do you ‘defend’ that?”

My answer: One of the biggest differences I see between Christians celebrating Halloween versus Easter or Christmas, is Halloween continues to be all about the devil, death and darkness. There’s NOTHING redeeming in that holiday that Christians can run with. But Christmas and Easter are interesting because Christians completely stole those pagan holidays back from the devil and made them PURELY about Jesus. There’s NOTHING about Halloween that is about Jesus.

Even the ungoldy world identifies Christmas and halloween 6Easter as Christian holidays and know it’s about Jesus. Halloween…not so much. My big issue is Christians who have tried to “sanitize” Halloween by making a Christian version of it with their Fall Festivals and Harvest parties. That’s not redeeming the holiday! That’s NOT taking it back or stealing it from the devil. That’s us hiding our light under a bushel so we don’t have to face the darkness! We just pretend it’s not there…

That’s why something set me on fire this year with the concept of Oct 31 being “SHATTER THE DARKNESS DAY”! It’s not participation—it’s speaking LIGHT INTO THE DARKNESS.

Meet people in the culture where they are at. That’s what Paul did when he gave his big speech at the statue of the Unknown God. He didn’t say, “You nasty Greeks! Worshiping idols!” No! He used it as a platform to preach the gospel, “I have good news for you! I know this God, and I can tell you He loves you.”

7965999140_0664c3c15e_zYou might be interested to know that the music to the old hymn Amazing Grace was once a worldly song sung in the pubs by a bunch of drunks. John Newton put Christian lyrics to it and it became a gospel classic. But no Christians ever complain that we shouldn’t sing Amazing Grace because it was originally an ungodly tavern song sung by heathens. (But then that’s maybe because so many Christians have no issues with bars and taverns any more. But I digress…)

Take back what the darkness has stolen! We can’t stop the culture from being the culture. It is what it is. So our answer to every situation is the word of God and bringing Light into every event and every conversation. The truth of God’s word is an answer to the darkness.

LET’S SHATTER THE DARKNESS ON OCTOBER 31!!!!!

I’m getting ready for my own halloween 1personal “Shatter the Darkness” party on Oct 31. Got my white Christmas tree lights to outline the front of my house. Got a large Styrofoam tombstone that I’m going to break in two with a big poster that says “Jesus Defeated Death.” I’ve got a couple of little internally lit pumpkins and I’m going to put a sign by them that says “Jesus is the light in my heart.”

Here are some other ideas I have for signs: “Zombies can be born again through life in Jesus.”

Or “Say the Name of Jesus and scary things leave!”

How About: “Vampires are powerless against the blood of Jesus!”

Or maybe “Monsters, zombies, vampires, ghosts and demons tremble at the name of Jesus!”

“Jesus is the light who overcame the Darkness”

halloween 4…I’m going to pass out lots of candy, I am going to give them a CD copy of my salvation message for kids called the Gospel Pumpkin, and tell them each, “God bless you!” as they leave. I have a male manikin at the Fire Center that I’m going to bring home, dress up like Jesus, and stand him visibly in my dining room window with one of the signs. I also am going to place a boom box outside in the yard and play songs like “God’s Not Dead He’s Surely alive” by the Newsboys.

Now before I get any tongue lashings about churches halloween 8doing carnivals or “Trunk or Treat” events and such, telling me how we have to be a light in the darkness and offer an alternative to our unsaved neighborhoods, please hear me. The body of believers I am connected to has a very effective carnival every October 31st.

And now after revealing that, I will probably get a tongue lashing from those who believe you cannot call yourself a Christian and have any part of Halloween whatsoever, including validating it with an “alternative” event.

The thing is, every Christian I know bases what they choose to do for Halloween on their personal interpretation of specific scriptures.

I am so grieved at how incredibly divisive this has become in the lives and churches of Christians. May I remind us all of three very powerful scriptures:

Romans 14:4-6 Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it…”(NKJV)

1 Cor. 10:29-33 …For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience? If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for? So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God— even as I try to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved. (NIV)

John 13:35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. (NKJV)

I fully realize this article will probably spark some very strong emotions and scriptures presented in the comment section, and that is great, as long as there are no words of judgment and condemnation. Make sure what you write is with a heart speaking in love about what God has shown you.

Remember, we all have blind spots, not one of us has this Christian thing figured out perfectly. We see dimly through a glass. Please respect the process God is doing in all of us. And remember, no matter what you do or don’t do, Jesus is still Lord over the date of October 31st!

 

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August 26, 2015 by Laura Diehl 2 Comments

Do You Lack Joy in Your Prayer Life?

There are Christians who have strong opinions about what our prayer time should look like. I have come to realize that if I spent my time praying for what everyone else tells me I need to pray for, I would hardly ever leave my prayer room!

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Someone who has a heart and anointing for missions will tell us we need to pray for missionaries daily. Someone who has a burden and calling for evangelism will tell us we need to pray for the unsaved every day. Others will try to open our eyes to the burden of praying daily for our schools and the students in them, or the government, or tell us we need to get more serious about spiritual warfare in our daily prayers, or pray a specific scripture every day.

17738-business-man-pointing-pvAnd it doesn’t end there. We are told by those who are early risers that it is best to get up early to spend time in prayer. (Yes, I know the Psalms refer to that.) Some offer their thoughts about how much time we should spend in prayer each day (at least an hour, right?). And don’t forget to make your prayer list…

It often seems that since we can’t meet all these requirements put on us by the spiritual people around us, we pretty much give up on being able to do it right, and find ourselves fighting a heaping load of discouragement. And instead of being excited about spending time with the One who is head-over-heels in love with us, we allow ourselves to come under condemnation of what others say we should be praying about, which often causes us not to set time aside to pray at all.

Prayer itself is not supposed to be a burden. It is simply communication between God and the human beings He created and loves; with a deep love more than our finite minds can comprehend.

God used the darkest circumstance in my life to set me free in this area. I wrote about it in my book When Tragedy Strikes.

 For me personally, over the years it has been easy to feel guilty in my quiet time with the Lord. I am either not following someone else’s pattern, or I’m not doing what I have been told by other Christians I should be doing. I “should” be reading my Bible for thirty minutes every day, or I “should” be on my knees praying for an hour, etc.

But during this time of learning how to rest in God’s 20150812_125449presence, I was actually set free from that kind of guilt. In trying to “just be” with God, I never followed any kind of formula. If I wanted to pray, I prayed. If I wanted to sleep, I slept (usually with “soaking” music that would surround me with His presence). If I wanted to cry, I cried. If I wanted to praise Him with my voice or by lifting my hands, that’s what I would do. If I wanted to spend time reading my Bible, I would open it and read. I learned to just have times of intimacy between myself and my Lord, and that has become a permanent part of my life.

I rest in the love of my God, and we spend time together, just the two of us in the privacy of my prayer room. I don’t let what others do, or what others insist all Christians should do, dictate the intimate time set aside to be with my God, nor do I feel a need to tell others what they should be doing in their time of intimacy with Him.

I have come to learn that when I spend my times of intimacy with the Lord being led by the Holy Spirit in this way, what I should pray for and how long I should pray is naturally taken care of.

Here are seven things I have learned over the years about prayer, which have greatly increased my desire for spending time in communication with my Father.

  1. Don’t use what others tell you to pray for as your prayer guide. Ask God what He wants you to pray for.
  2. Keep it simple. Just pray your own words from man prayingyour own heart.
  3. Don’t get caught up in loud or wordy prayers, thinking you have to get God’s attention. He came to Elijah in a still small voice, and it is okay to come to Him in the same way.
  4. You don’t have to come to Him at the same time every day. There is much to be said for routine and discipline, but many of us don’t have that luxury (such as mothers of small children).
  5. Don’t base the length of your prayer time on what others think it should be. Base it on your own needs and desires, which can change through the seasons of life.
  6. If you are praying a promise from the Word of God, speak it out loud. There is power in the spoken word. Use “voice activation” to put the power of God’s Word at work in your life and those you love.
  7. Realize the more time you spend with Him, the easier it is to hear Him speak to you.

Here is another excerpt from my book When Tragedy Strikes about the subject of prayer.

Thankfully, prayer is more than just time set aside every morning before starting your day, or a set gathering at church. Prayer is an ongoing conversation with God that can take place at any time, in any place. Talk to Him from your heart throughout the day, and then listen for His response. He is there, and He wants to be in communication with you. As you become more and more aware of His presence, you will occasionally hear Him initiate the conversation. You will be amazed at the healing that happens in those beautiful random moments of prayer.

untitledWhen prayer is based in your own personal relationship with God, it becomes a joy. My relationship with my earthly father is different than my sister’s relationship with him. The same is true of our heavenly Father. As His children, we each have a unique relationship with Him, and our prayer life should be a reflection of that individual relationship.

Which of the seven thoughts about prayer spoke to you directly? I would love to hear from you in the comment section below.

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June 10, 2015 by Laura Diehl Leave a Comment

Are You Hoping for a Change?

I recently stayed at a hotel with my husband. He had to go away on a business trip, and I decided to tag along to have a nice quiet week to myself to get some book writing done.

The first night when we checked in and got to the door of our room, we heard little kids in the room right next to us. The next morning at breakfast we discovered it was a family of seven in that room. (I know exactly what that is like, having raised five children.)
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I went to the front desk to let someone know, even though the room next to us has five very well-behaved children, I might be asking to change rooms since I was there specifically for a quiet atmosphere to get some writing done.

As soon as my husband left for his business meetings that first morning, a crane pulled up to my third floor hotel window. True story! It was loud, and the diesel fumes were getting to me. A few minutes later there was some terrible banging and slamming on the roof, directly above my head, sounding like the workers were going to come right through the ceiling! So not only did I have a family with five kids next to me, I now had a noisy crane outside my window and this horrendous banging noise directly above me!

I found myself thinking, “It would be a real hassle and cut into my morning to have to pack myself and Dave up and move us to another room. Do I just hope this isn’t going to last very long? Do I hope the kids next door are gone most of the day, and if they are not gone that they are basically quiet? What do I do?”

I asked the Lord for wisdom, and felt led to go and talk to someone Hotel-suite-living-roomat the front desk. The woman there was very apologetic and said she would find me a different room right away. So I packed us up and moved us to the middle floor on the other side of the building, where it was nice and quiet and I could focus totally on my work. Ahhhhh…..

How often does something like this happen to us? Not just as an external situation, but often as an internal dilemma. We find ourselves in a situation we didn’t plan to be in. Do we make some changes to get back on track? Or do we stay put, hoping the situation changes? Most of the time it is much easier not to be inconvenienced, and hope for things to change.

I could have stayed in that room and continued hoping (for who knows how long) that things would quiet down, so I could do what I specifically went there to do. Even though I was inconvenienced for about an hour by going down to the desk, packing up the room, moving all of our stuff over, and unpacking it all again, from that point on I was back on track. It was worth the inconvenience of making the change.

gear shiftHow about you? Is there something going on in your life, that if you just made an inconvenient adjustment, things would get back on track? God wants you to push through. James 1:4 says, “Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything”(NIV). God wants you and me to have perseverance, which is a sign of spiritual maturity. Sometimes that perseverance means to stick it out where we are, and sometimes it means we need to inconvenience ourselves to shift our position.  And when we pray, asking for His wisdom, He promises to give it to us. (James 1:5)

I was so thankful God gave me the prompting He did when I asked Him what to do, and that I followed through with it.  I got a lot done those few days, things that will bear eternal fruit.  I pray you will also make the adjustments God reveals to you to make; adjustments that will bear eternal fruit as well.

What area in your life are you seeking wisdom from God that might need a repositioning? Share it with me in the comment section below.

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June 3, 2015 by Laura Diehl 4 Comments

Seven Ways to Help Our Adult Children Part 3

As much as we might want to, we can’t make our adult child bow to the King and live in the fullness of His Kingdom.

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In Part 1 and Part 2, I gave the first five of the seven ways we can help our adult children when we find ourselves in this situation.  If you missed them, you will want to go back and read them both before reading the final blog of this series.

I have sometimes pictured my children standing on the edge of a cliff. They are very close to jumping off, trying to decide if they want to be totally separated from my beliefs concerning God and church.  So I know what I do, or don’t do, is very critical.

Let’s take just a minute to look at this, especially the issue of going to church. Like it or not, it does not say anywhere in the Bible you must go to church to be saved.  I know it says we are not to forsake the fellowship, and I know we need to be in fellowship with other believers.  But the Western culture church is not a Biblical mandate: going to a specific building at a set time each week, worshiping God being led from a platform of musicians, sitting for another 30-60 minutes facing that same church in Haitiplatform while someone preaches a message at us, and then dismissing and going home or out to lunch.   Send me an email when you see that formula in the Bible, much less attaching the label of “church” on it in the scriptures.

God Himself is what needs to be relevant to our lives, more than the modern day “church” is.  And I believe that is where some of the problem lies in the young adults across our nation.  They spent up to 4 years in a youth group with lots of great bands and pizza parties, which had almost nothing to do with how God is relevant in their lives, or how He would be when they were sent out into life on their own.

They are part of a reality generation.  They don’t want to watch things happen; they want to be right in the middle of what is happening.  They are tired of going to a building, being told that is church.  They want to go out into the world and BE the church.

The scary part is our children were not taught how to BE the church while being raised in the church.  So when they go out into the world, they are easily swayed by the ways of the world, and we have the painful view of watching them flounder.

With all that being said, let’s look at the last two of the seven ways we can help them from the distance many of us are forced to be in.

With all that being said, let’s look at the last two of the seven ways we can help them from the distance many of us are forced to be in.

6. Claim the promises in the scriptures over them

• I have a much worn book that helped me do this effectively over the power of a praying bkyears as my children grew up called The Power of a Praying Parent by Stormie Omartian. I have recently purchased her book The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children. I highly recommend getting yourself a copy!

• My most recent event of having my “baby” move out from home and in with a group of friends who don’t have a relationship with the Lord has me working through all seven of these things, so I am writing this to myself just as much as anyone else. A scripture God has me praying over him is one of his own favorites growing up. “Greater is Jesus in him, than the one who is in the world trying to entice and deceive him!” (1 John 4:4).

• Another thing I have done with all of my kids is to take the meaning of their first and middle name, and ask the Holy Spirit to lead me to a scripture that encompasses the meaning of those names. I pray each of my children’s scripture over them frequently. (Several years ago I even made each one of them a plaque with their first and middle names, the meanings of those names, and their scripture which hangs under their yearly school picture – now all of their senior pictures – in our family room.)

7. Take yourself off the hook!

Many years ago I was walking around my subdivision, feeling sorry for myself at being one of the world’s worst moms. God interrupted my pity party with, “Did your parents make any mistakes with you?” I had to say yes to that. “And didn’t I use those things to make you strong and be an overcomer?” Well, yes, I suppose that was true. “Don’t you think I can and will use your mistakes for something good in the lives of your kids in the same way I did for you?” I had to repent for my lack of faith in who God is in their lives, and for putting so much pressure on myself to be a perfect parent, and blaming myself when my kids make bad choices.

In case you haven’t thought of this before: The only “parent” Adam and Eve had was a Perfect Father, and they disobeyed (Eve from deception and Adam from choosing to bend under peer pressure). They went their own way, messing up their lives from the plan God had for them. So if a Perfect Father has children who make bad choices, I don’t need to be burdened under false guilt for their choices, no matter how much I have prayed and modeled how awesome walking in God’s destiny is.

Abandoned_by_Artemis_TwitchesHere is one of the times I will be totally transparent and say, even though I say those things, it is still something I struggle with way more than I want to admit. And guess who my greatest encouragers seem to be? My own kids! Here is part of a text I received from one of them, just within the last month.

“Mom I love you, and you are far from a failure, you have one beautiful daughter who has finished the race and gone to heaven (that’s 1 for 1 so far) and the rest are still running and in their process. To be a failure there has to be a definitive end. The rest of us are still going and learning, far from the end. So, you’re undefeated and still going in my mind. I know it’s hard, but try to stop putting so much pressure on yourself. You show us the way to God’s heart, and there have been things you can’t control so continue with your heart after God and working on you. We do see it, and God’s doing the rest. I love you my triumphant victorious mother!”

Needless to say, that text is locked in so I can’t accidently delete it!

God is faithful, not only to us, but to our children!  He has an even deeper love for them than we do, and He has a perfect plan, including things we can’t see.  Let’s be determined to REST in the love He has for them, and thank Him that the same grace and mercy He extends to us, is the same grace and mercy He extends to our children.  God is a victorious King, yesterday, today, and forever!

In the Crown of Glory Ministries library you can find 31 Scriptural promises written out for you to claim and pray over your adult children. (One for each day of the month.)

I would love to hear from you.  Leave the first name of a child you would like lifted up in prayer.  I will come into agreement with you, and hold each and every one up to the King on the Throne in prayer.

 

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May 27, 2015 by Laura Diehl Leave a Comment

Seven Ways to Help Our Adult Child Part 2

It is so painful to watch our adult children go their own direction, either making choices against God’s Word or compromising the calling on their lives.  In the last blog, I gave two of the seven ways we can help our adult children in this situation.  If you missed it, you will want to go back and read Part 1 before reading this blog.

Seven Ways to Help Your Adult Child 2

So far I have talked about the importance of unconditional love (loving them in their love language, not our own) and knowing the difference between discipline and judgment or manipulation.  Let’s look at the next three ways we can help our adult children when they are not where we would like them to be in their spiritual walk.

3. Lots and lots of prayer

This has been another huge critical key as my kids began to make their own decisions and live their own life apart from my decisions for them. We know in our heads that we are supposed to pray, but do we actually believe and do it? And if so, what kind of prayers are we praying for them? Are they our own selfish prayers, telling God what we want Him to do, or are they prayers of grace and protection, favor, and blessings over our children?

There are so many effective and powerful ways we can pray for our adult children.

  • Break generational curses – ask God what your child is dealing with that runs in the family, and break off those chains in the name of Jesus!
  • Break ungodly soul ties – who have they been connected with in the past and right now that have a hold on their souls? Break off those connections and your child’s praying handsdesire for those connections in the name of Jesus!
  • Ask the Holy Spirit to hover over them
  • Speak over them that they will be on a “short leash” and not be able to get very far from God and his love for them
  • Study out the meaning of their name, and pray that over them, that they will come into alignment with who they are by name. God takes names very seriously. If you want to know more about this subject, I touch on it in Seven Ways to Help Find Your Royal Identity.

Prayer is extremely powerful.  Don’t ever underestimate this weapon you have been given. Make sure to faithfully use it to blast the enemy as he goes after your child.

4. Take communion

I do this on a pretty regular basis, keeping a small bottle of juice (100% personal communionjuice does not have to be refrigerated) and matzo crackers in my prayer room.  Reminding myself and the enemy that I am in an unbreakable covenant through the body and blood of Jesus is another powerful weapon.

    • All of our kids were dedicated to the Lord publically. Often during my communion time, I remind myself, and the enemy of that fact.
    • All of my children received Jesus as an act of salvation at an early age. Taking communion reminds me that in the final battle, the enemy has already lost.
    • Most of them also chose to be water baptized at early ages (one waited until 19). Our oldest son was baptized a second time as a young adult, as a declaration of a deeper understanding of his old life being buried and a renewed commitment of being alive to Christ. Baptism is another weapon we have against the enemy. Once again, while taking communion, I claim that act of symbolism my children chose to participate in, speaking death to their fleshly desires and for the Spirit of resurrection life to be active in the lives of my adult children.

 5. Worship

This is a HUGE key.  I won’t repeat it here, but I have a very specific story about a time God showed me how to use worship to change the atmosphere over my adult child.  (I write about it in my book Triple Crown Transformation.)  My daughter was living at home at the time, but worship can change the spiritual atmosphere over our children no matter where they are living.

Worship is a weapon that has a dual purpose. Not only can it affect the spiritual atmosphere over our children, it affects US, to pull us out from that place of worry and anxiety into a place of peace and trusting God.

I actually experienced this again just yesterday.  Two days ago, my youngest let us know he was moving out, and within a couple of hours his friends (who have the typical generational hodgepodge of religious beliefs) were there with a truck to load his stuff up.  That was shockingly abrupt.  Obviously I did not have time to process this before it happened (or have time to try and talk him out of it, which might be exactly why it was this abrupt…?)  I pretty much cried the rest of the evening.

Yesterday morning, as I spent time crying and praying and crying and worshiping, I saw myself in a boat, and my son in a smaller boat next to me.  I took the rope between our two boats, and released my end, dropping it into the water to let him go.  Hard?  For sure!  And as I continued to read scriptures and saturate myself in worship, my peace returned and in my weakness, I began to take on His strength.

Later that morning in church (on Mother’s Day, go 10622727_10152675724103703_3782810727964795755_nfigure!) as I was worshiping the Lord from deep within my heart, I saw my son in his boat, which had already gone quite a bit away from me, but this time I saw Jesus in the boat with him waving at me.  Wow!  What a wonderful reminder and reassurance that no matter what happens, no matter where my son is, Jesus is right there with him!

I am so very thankful when we worship the One who is worthy of our love, no matter what we may be feeling, He will come to us and meet us in our place of need!

I pray this has been helpful to you.  Next week I will share with you the final two of the seven ways to help our adult children.

Which one of these three ways spoke you the most, that you plan on implementing right away?  Let me know in the comments.

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