Author: Christi Oakley

Lately, I have become more aware of words, themes, and concepts that appear in my reading repeatedly. Today’s concept is ‘walk.’ I read in the Jesus Calling for today, “I set the pace in keeping with your needs and My purposes.” Then my email devotion from Greg Laurie was all about What It Means to…

Sometimes, ok often, I withhold some of my belief, my trust, my faith. It’s like I have a pile of coins or tokens in my heart. I give over so many of them to God, but then I keep some in reserve. Some ‘just in case.’ Just in case what?! If God can’t handle it?…

The Upper Room devotion said, “the sooner we come to God, the longer we can honor God and walk with God.” When I read this, my Grandma came to mind. She passed away in 2015, but I think about the time I got to spend with her. I have been blessed to receive countless hugs,…

In the Upper Room devotion, the author says,” I will always be a Christian who is under construction…” As we enter the summer season, the season of road construction, it makes me stop and think of the comparison. We do not look forward to road construction. Oh, we know the roads need fixed. Can see…

Thoughts. We all have them. I read we can have 50,000-80,000 thoughts in a day. That’s a lot! Some thoughts like, ‘check the dryer’ are no brainers. We often stop what we are doing and follow the thought. Other thoughts come to us and we don’t even give them a second thought…we let them slide…

I started creating this blog a few nights ago. I went to bed feeling so good about the title “Guided to Joy.” The next morning, I woke up with doubt creeping in. You’re starting a blog? For what? So your friends can read it? Who do you think you are? You’re not going to get…