Category Archives: Strength to Strength

How to Find Strength in Weakness

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Sharon Rose Gibson

Today, I called Leola, a friend of mine to see about getting together. When she answered the phone she shared,

“I’ve been in the hospital for several days and am now home. I had an asthma attack that I could not handle.”

Since she is in her eighties, this especially concerned me. “I didn’t know. I’m so sorry to hear this!”

“Thank you, but I see God’s purposes in it. I got to pray with some nurses and the Lord revealed some things to me while I lay there in my hospital bed.”

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83 Year Old Woman Inspires Strength To Work

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Sharon Rose Gibson

I noticed her hunched over the shopping baskets in Walmart. She’s a greeter, a tiny lady with gray hair but she is strong! We have chatted before so I stopped to talk to her when I went Walmart today. I shared that I felt tired from teaching at the high school all day.

She leaned on a shopping cart, “I am tired too. I don’t bounce back the way I did when I was 70. At 70 I could work 8 to 10 hours a day, drive home and get my energy back by the time I arrived home.”

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Gratitude Does Not Deny Pain

Posted on September 3, 2016 by Sharon Rose Gibson

Gratitude does not deny pain and suffering.
Gratitude enables you to bear it.
Gratitude gives you the power to overcome.

In everything give thanks. . .

He who offers thank offerings honors Me and
prepares the way for Me so that I may
show him the salvation of God. Psalm 50:23

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Gratitude Gives Strength in Hardship

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Sharon Rose Gibson

“What happened? Are you okay?” I looked in concern and shock at his left foot, bright red and swollen to six times its size. I had spotted Keith, an old friend I used to work with at DaySpring Cards. I had finished my strength training at Holly Street Physical Therapy.

He leaned on his cane and smiled, “Oh, I’m better now. I can walk! I got a rare bacteria that traveled to my foot. I’ve been in bed. This is my first day up.”

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How to Turn Disaster Fears Into Faith

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Sharon Rose Gibson

I don’t know about you but natural disasters such as flooding, earthquakes, tornadoes give me a heightened awareness of how helpless we are as humans.

This past weekend we had serious flooding in our area creating an emergency disaster situation for many. The incessant rain and thunder stirred all those feelings of vulnerability, fear and powerlessness. These normal feelings cause us to reach out to a power great than ourselves and for me the turbulence caused me to turn to God.

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