by Patty Parker | Nov 27, 2022 | Blog
“Sorry ma’am. But you can’t leave. We’re on lockdown.” After traveling to Fort Worth to view an art exhibit called “From Heaven to Earth,” these words seemed out of place. But I did as I was told and took a seat in the common area. After texting my husband not to...
by Patty Parker | Nov 23, 2022 | Blog
My father passed away twelve years ago this month. My relationship with him—both living and in the time since his death—has proved a most rigorous lesson in forgiveness. Just as grief comes in waves, unforgiveness knocks us down unexpectedly and repeatedly....
by Patty Parker | Sep 14, 2022 | Blog, Faith & Heritage
Love is Love? Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is...
by Patty Parker | Aug 8, 2022 | Blog, Faith & Heritage
Nobody’s Perfect The one who says he is in the light but still hates his brother is still in the darkness. The one who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, walks in the...
by Patty Parker | Jun 15, 2022 | Blog, Faith & Heritage
Nobody’s Perfect If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth. But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son...
