For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.—Psalm 139:13-14
My mother used to tell me I was conceived to save my parents’ marriage. Considering my father left when I was 6 weeks old, (more…)
So teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom. – Psalm 90:12
Lately – as in the past couple of years – I have trouble reconciling the image I see of myself in a photo with the image I always had in my mind – you know, the one whose size 3 clothing had (more…)
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. – Romans 1:16
My name is Cheri, and I’m a Bible-believing Christian.
This is how I’d like to introduce myself, because if you were to know just one thing about me (besides my (more…)
In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives. – 1 Peter 3:1
When my husband and I were married, I was what you would call a baby Christian. I was nominally saved and (more…)
Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways. – Psalm 119:37
Two seemingly unrelated things converged in my mind today. The first was the notion of eating dinner with my husband tonight. On Monday and Thursday nights, he goes straight from work to his mother’s house to help her. On Wednesday nights, we divide and (more…)