Roses of Grace

Have you ever been scared? Well even I know the answer to that. Yes. Everyone on this earth has been scared at one point in their lives.  You know what it is like when you are scared. You get nervous, sad, angry, or depressed, but most always you feel helpless. The truth is, though, you basically are. You can’t control things or manipulate it to turn out how you want it to.  Though if you are Christian like me, you know someone who can. God controls how things turn out. That is pretty calming. At least for me. Isaiah says it pretty well: "Do not be afraid, for I am with you." (Isaiah 43:5)   Now let me ask you another question. Have you ever been through scary or hard circumstances? The answer again is yes. Everyone has been through at least one circumstance where they were scared. I have for sure.  Last year I struggled with anxiety badly. Every day was spent fretting and every night spent fearing.  It took almost a whole year until I would not become anxious a...

This post is provided by Rachel Leitch, a friend of mine who writes at her adventure journal ProseWorthy ! Be sure to check her blog out after you're done here. Her writing is very entertaining and edifying to read.   Quarantine hit us all out of nowhere. What were we supposed to do with all this free time? The only natural answer, of course, was: get a puppy. And that’s exactly what my family did. To be fair, we’d been looking for a while. Our family dog had been showing signs of a serious illness and old age and was reaching the end of his romp. And hey, we were all at home. What better time to train a puppy? Thanks to our mail carrier (who to this day remains one of our dog’s favorite people), we came across a litter of Great Pyrenees/yellow Labrador puppies.  Well, what was left of a litter. Only one was left. We couldn’t resist that white cotton ball puff in the picture. So out we drove to the house. As soon as we rounded the corner towards the dog pen, the puppy in quest...

Hello there, friends!  Today I have the owner of presenting an interview with my friend Isabella from Inhuman Passion . This is part of the blog tour for Isabella's new blog, The Public-Schooled Christian : resources for Christian teenagers who attend public school and want to live out their faith. So without further ado, let's get to the interview!    1. All right! Welcome, Isabella. Could you introduce yourself for us?   Hi! I'm Isabella, a 15-year-old Christian who lives in North Carolina.  I have grown up in a Christian family and was baptized when I was 9, but I realized the seriousness of faith in Christ and truly started living for Him at 13 years old. I started writing about Jesus at 14 years old, and here I am now—starting a blog about living for Jesus in public school.   2. What made you decide to start this blog? As you might have realized, I go to public school. School has been a big part of my journey with Jesus--in good and bad ...

(Note: Today's blog post is written by Isabella Daou from the blog Inhuman Passion ! Isabella is a wonderful blogger who writes about the Christian walk, and I'd highly recommend her articles. They're very encouraging to read.) We all know that to survive, we need to eat.  We need energy from calories to perform tasks. And food has calories, so we eat food to give us the energy we need.  After eating, we use the calories we consumed to do something. Whether our body uses them to perform basic functions, uses them as fuel for exercise, or stores them as fat, those calories are used. We take energy in so we can put that energy out.  In the same way that we get energy to perform basic functions from food, we get the energy to live for Christ by spending time with Him.  Food has calories. So when we take in food, we take in calories and nutrients, and our body then has those calories and nutrients in it. Jesus is the source of light. So when we spend time with Jesus, our...