A Little About Me

For those who read these devotionals, I thought I should let you know a little about me.  My name is Cindy.  I am 53 years old, married, mother of 5 adult children and 9 grandchildren.  I first learned about the Lord as a child, although my parents were not Christians.  Although I took my children to church every Sunday, it took until I was 40 before I was finally saved.  I couldn’t get enough of the Lord from that point on and read my Bible and prayed for His enlightenment daily. 

Four years later I was hurt at work and became disabled.  Since I was unable to do anything at all physically except lay on the couch, my husband would turn on our stereo before he left for work.  It was programmed to play 60 praise and worship CD’s, and that is what I listened to day after day.  The only thing I was capable of doing was reading and praying, so I spent the 8 hours a day while my husband was gone, reading my bible, studying it and praying.  I grew more in those months then I had ever grown before!  It was amazing! 

As I healed physically, to where I could sit up and move around some, I felt the Lord wanted me to start a web site.  He told me that the name was to be Fresh-Hope, but I didn’t like that name and argued against it.  Guess what?  He won!  So I began the ministry the Lord gave me, opening Fresh-Hope.com on March 11, 2003.

If you would like to know more about Fresh-Hope, you can read about that here:

I wanted to share my heart with you

I still spend about 5 hours a day reading, studying and reflecting on God’s Word.  Each week, after talking to the Lord, I pick a subject and then each day write a devotional about that subject.  For example, if the subject is about how God has set us apart, The title might be God promises to set you apart, and each day that week I write something new about it.

I call these devotionals, mainly because I’m not sure what else to call them.  Mainly I’m just writing what the Lord has shown me about the subject and sharing it with you all.  I do try and keep it fairly short for your sakes.  I realize that I have a tendency to get very long winded and could usually write 10 times as much about a subject as I wind up posting.  For me, condensing things is the hardest part, because I so thoroughly enjoy digging in God’s Word, searching it with His help to discover what He has to say, that I hate to leave out a single step or a single word of the journey.  I have to count heavily on Him to keep myself focused so that I don’t get too long winded.  I realize that most of you don’t have the time to read and study that I do, so my goal is to share what I’ve learned and hopefully whet your appetite so that you’ll want to go check out what He says for yourself as well.

I would ask one thing of you.  Please, never take anything I say as “gospel truth”.  God’s Word is the only thing you can and should trust to always be right, not me, not your pastor, not your church.  I can promise you that I will always do my very best to never teach anything that is not exactly what God’s Word says, but being human, I can make mistakes.  So I ask that you always check what I say with God’s Word.  If at anytime you feel that I have made a mistake, please don’t hesitate to come to Fresh Hope and let me know about it.  I will most eagerly check what you tell me against God’s Word and if I am mistaken, I will admit it and post a correction as quickly as possible.

Let us then study together to present our approved, as those who correctly handle the Word of Truth, searching it daily to see what the Lord would say to us.

2 Timothy 2:15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Come and join us on Fresh-Hope.com!