Author Archives: Adonai's Appeal

Anxiety is hyper prevalent today’s world. 19% of American adults have an anxiety disorder. Younger people (18 to 24) now are far more likely to also experience anxiety (50%). Even in adolescents anxiety is on the rise. And women far more likely to struggle with anxiety disorders than men. (I’m one of them.) So, strugglingContinue reading “Peace”

Today is Thanksgiving and people across this country will be gathering to celebrate family and friends. People will be thinking about all the different people and things in their life they are grateful for – a practice by the way we should try to do every day not just once a year. Yet many ofContinue reading “Spiritual Blessing: Jesus Christ”

When something is far away, you can’t make out the details. Its fuzzy. Blurry. But the closer you get the clear whatever your looking at becomes. The same can be said about relationships. The further away you become the more fuzzy the relationship. You lose sight of the details. But the closer you try toContinue reading “Spiritual Blessing: Nearness”

Have you ever made something with your hands? Worked on it and worked on it until it was what you wanted or needed? I have. It is an amazing experience to take all the different individual components and work with them until they make something new. However, if you’re like me, once you make itContinue reading “Spiritual Blessing: Workmanship”

As kids one of our greatest fears is to have to sit alone at the cafeteria table. We want to be welcomed to a friend grow and not isolated and alone. But we soon realize that even when sitting with people we can still feel alone. So many of us either sat alone because weContinue reading “Spiritual Blessing: Seated Together”

Today is the Lord’s Day! We worship the Lord Jehovah because He has gifted us access to His salvation through His grace! He has saved us from our sins and given us the pathway back to Him in paradise. We’d never make in there in our own. We’d get lost in the dark. But GodContinue reading “Gift Giving”

I absolutely love nature. Being outdoors is my preferred place. Whatever the activity – work or play – I’d rather it be outside. We experience and learn so much about God from spending time in nature – the world He created for us. However, there is one component of our natural world that doesn’t appearContinue reading “Spiritual Blessing: Resurrection”

All the great love stories written throughout history – even the tragic ones- have several common traits. Unrequited love. Seperation. Angst. Hurt. Confessions. Heroism. Reunions. Sacrifice. The greater the love the bigger all of those things end up being which makes the reunions and happy endings even more grand. God’s love for us is theContinue reading “Spiritual Blessing: Love”

Growing up, when I played t-ball and softball, sometimes our team or the team we were playing was vastly superior to the other. The superior team would just score run after run after run. Eventually scoring so many more runs than the other team, the game was prematurely ended. It was a kindness to theContinue reading “Spiritual Blessing: Mercy”

Lately I’ve become really interested (borderline obsessed) with the art of wax sealing. I want my own kit. I’ve looked into the stamps and the process. (Who needs envelope stickers when you can wax seal them!) The art of wax sealing has been over for ages and ages and ages. Back in Roman times envelopsContinue reading “Spiritual Blessing: Sealed”