Posts By: Carol Dietz

I was driving down Highway 49 on my way to a small town, watching the fall colors spread across the trees and the fields alive with deer and birds. The quiet beauty of the trip slowed my mind, and I turned on some music from the 60s to keep me company. John Lennon’s Imagine came… Read more »

This past year has carried a weight I never expected. I have watched people I love slip from this world—some slowly through sickness, others swallowed by discouragement, and a few who simply lost the hope that once kept them going. I have seen young families shaken as illness strikes a mother or father, leaving everyone… Read more »

The actor Richard Gere recently said that America needs leaders who can “raise us to a higher level of possibility” and criticized what he called a “crude mentality.” Because he is a celebrity, his spiritual views—shaped by Buddhism—are treated as wisdom and widely accepted. But this raises an honest question: why do the spiritual ideas… Read more »

Yesterday afternoon I watched a movie called Troll. In the first scene, a father was climbing a mountain with his young daughter. When they reached the top, he pointed across the Troll mountains and told her the old stories—how the peaks were shaped like sleeping giants. She stared and said, “I do not see anything.”… Read more »

Proverbs 28:2 warns us plainly: “When there is moral rot within a nation, its government topples easily.” Moral rot begins the moment people turn away from the true God and follow their own desires. It does not show itself suddenly. It starts softly—through small compromises, ignored convictions, and replaced truths. But as a nation pushes… Read more »

Those words rise in me every morning at four o’clock. I never set an alarm, yet this hour continues to call me awake. What once felt like a disturbance has become something sacred. This is the moment when the world is silent and the weight of life presses heavily on my heart. It is the… Read more »

Jesus showed compassion by going to people. He stepped into their streets, entered their homes, and walked into their pain. He met them where they lived. He did not demand that Israel rewrite its laws to make His mission easier, and He never asked Rome to open its borders. His compassion was action, not political… Read more »

Every day the headlines give people another reason to lose hope. Wars spread, economies tremble, leaders deceive, and families are torn apart. Many read these stories and feel the world slipping out of their control. When that feeling settles into the heart, hope begins to disappear. But the real reason hope is fading is because… Read more »

I once wrote about the white blood cells in our bodies—those remarkable soldiers God created to rush into battle the moment infection enters. They swarm, they surround, they strike, and they cleanse. They do not wait politely for the infection to spread; they confront it immediately, because life depends on their response. And just as… Read more »

“As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflects the real person.” Proverbs 27:19 (NLT) When you look into calm water, it shows the truth. There is no hiding, no filtering, and no reshaping the image. The reflection reveals the real you. God says the heart works the same way. The heart reflects… Read more »