MY DIVINE LIVING

Welcome 2026! As always, the new year provides an opportunity for a fresh new start! It’s a time for new hope. It’s a time for setting resolutions, goals, making personal improvements and embracing all the possibilities that a new year can bring. However, although we have a new year with our new plans, our God is immutable! For those who put their faith in Christ, we look forward to all that He has for us this year! In this month’s podcast we discuss the immutability of God

The Christmas season is here again. It’s the time everyone looks forward to for twelve long months. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year! It’s the season that embraces a special spirit, called the Spirit of Christmas! The Spirit of Christmas can mean different things to different people. The primary focus of the secular world’s Spirit of Christmas includes commercial gift-giving, decorated trees and twinkling lights. Many of us enjoy and participate in these fun t

The fall season is here again. It’s a season we readily welcome for the amazingly beautiful colorful foliage and the much-appreciated temperature cool down. An applicable quote by Lee Maynard says, "Fall is the season of the year that God seemed to have put here just for the beauty of it." But fall is also a season for reflections, reflections on the seasons of the past, reflections on our life’s seasons and changes, and for self-introspection. What does a time of reflectio

Before I introduce our topic, I give God all honor and praise for blessing “My Divine Living” this month with 18 years, almost two decades of writing! For those who may not know, it was back in 2007 when my column was launched, “My Divine Living” with the Garland Journal News newspaper. Mr. Willie Hobdy, the publisher and owner of that paper, gave me an opportunity to write for his paper as a Senior Columnist. In addition, he gave my daughters an opportunity to write a fashio

As a new school year begins, I am reminded of my many years as a classroom teacher where I always prepared to welcome a fresh new group of learners. While school kids return each fall to begin a new session of learning, learning is not reserved for school kids only. But there should be continuous learning for everyone throughout life. Regardless of our age we should seek personal growth as a learner for as long as we live. An amazing quote for us to remember by Henry Ford, “