Karen Jordan
Faith and Family Stories
Focusing on God’s Presence
Do you sense you’ve lost your way in your spiritual journey? I walk through one door and find the next door padlocked. Yet, as I turn around, the door behind me has closed, too. I find myself plagued by indecision and doubt. How did I get here, Lord? When I finally...
Discovering a New Prayer Strategy
With my personal life on hold due to my mother’s health crisis, I didn’t know how to help her. I couldn’t even take care of my own family responsibilities four hundred miles away. Plus, I struggled to manage my other commitments at work and college. I couldn’t...
Facing Your Fear, Doubt, and Unbelief
When my husband sensed God’s call to move our family to a city we’d never even visited, I agreed to go because I believed it was the right thing to do. It didn’t take long for my emotional connections to my past to deeply trouble me. I thought about the loved ones I...
Speaking God’s Truth to Your Soul
During my mother’s health crisis, I didn’t know what to say or do. Overwhelmed by fearful emotions, I tried to pray. I knew God’s miraculous intervention was Mother’s only hope. But I still felt helpless and afraid. And I panicked. Lord, I don’t know what to do? Help!...
Navigating Your Negative Self-Talk and Overwhelming Anxiety
How do you respond to overwhelming emotions? Positive or negative self-talk? Fearful thoughts escalated into a full-blown panic attack as I faced a crisis with my mother over a decade ago. As I waited for the doctors to diagnose her medical condition, I began to do...
We Will All Be Changed
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— (1 Cor. 15:51 NIV) I first noticed this scripture from 1 Corinthians 15:51 about "change" a few years ago on a hallway mural in our church nursery. I laughed at the clever...