Blog entries

If All Else Fails

Cookie Gray — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:49:07 +0100

How are things? Been in any messes lately? Having issues in your relationships? Have you blown your purity and you wonder how you let that happen?

Life’s stuff is hard! I've discovered something that makes dealing with life’s stuff easier. It’s a daily walk with Jesus. How in the world does one walk with Jesus and establish a relationship with Him? Our world is so-o-o-o noisy and busy. So you need to set aside a time everyday Read More...

Who is Jesus?

Cookie Gray — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:08:35 +0100

In the Christian world today it is Palm Sunday. The church celebrates Jesus coming into Jerusalem at Passover riding on a donkey. This was just prior to His being arrested, illegally tried, and crucified. The road was filled with people spreading their cloaks and palm branches in His path as they shouted, " Hosanna, to the son of David." "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!" "Hosanna in the highest Heaven." The city of Jerusalem Read More...

What the perspective of an unborn baby might be..............

Cookie Gray — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:20:17 +0100

I wrote this for LifeCare Newsletter last year. I thought it was worth repeating for those who didn't see it.

One day I began to take note of my surroundings as being a warm and seemingly very safe place. There was also this pleasant rhythmic sound rather like a soft drum beat that was most comforting. I began to hear voices; I think they were my Mommy and Daddy. I liked the sound of their voices because Read More...

Coming Alongside........

Cookie Gray — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:15:34 +0100

This is my first experience in blogging. I'm looking forward to communicating with you once or twice a week. Since we're in the middle of the Winter Olympics these days I thought I'd share a story I recently read.

Derek Redmond was favored to win the four-hundred-meter race in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. About half way through his semifinal heat he experienced exteme pain in his right leg and fell to the floor. He fought to his feet, pushinRead More...

Our adoption

Tom Behrens — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:30:19 +0100

It was a crisp and clear October Saturday in Tennessee when the phone rang unexpectedly. My wife and I happened to pick the phone up at the same time.

We had tried to have children, but as it turned out, my wife was unable to conceive after repeated surgeries. We had investigated adoption through the state, but we were approaching the cutoff age for adoptive parents. So, we had just about given up on raising children, something we both desperately wanted to haveRead More...